Art
The Indian Removal Act Is on View at the National Archives for the First Time
Visitors can read the handwritten 1830 act that was signed by Andrew Jackson and led to the forced removal of indigenous tribes across the United States.
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Art
Dispassionate Films of Crushed Cars and the Mirrored Moon
In his solo show at Andrew Kreps Gallery, Kevin Jerome Everson offers an abstracted extension of the more human-centered work he's known for.
Books
Celestial Spheres, Smog Charts, and Radial Cartography in a New Book About Circles
Manuel Lima's The Book of Circles explores centuries of circular visual expression, from representations of infinity to maps of the stars.
Art
Learn About the Origins of Museums Across Latin America
On May 11 and 12, the Getty Center is hosting a symposium on the beginnings of art, archaeology, and ethnography museums in Latin America.
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A Conversation on the Contentious Relationship Between the Arts and Community Development
On May 10 at Flux Factory, four representatives from community-oriented cultural initiatives in New York City will discuss how the arts both hasten and hinder gentrification.
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A 19th-Century Photographer of Scottish Industrialization Gets His First Survey
The Getty Center in Los Angeles opens the first survey of Thomas Annan, who photographed Glasgow during industrialization.
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Green Point Projects Presents an Exhibition of Work by Stanisław Fijałkowski
The new cultural initiative in Brooklyn is launching with a show of work by one of the pioneers of Polish postwar lyrical abstraction.
Comics
Taking Nothing for Granted
You have to make peace with it all.
Art
In Search of Olga, Picasso’s Muse and First Wife
An exhibition at Paris’s Picasso Museum sheds new light on the woman mostly known through her husband’s gaze.
Art
Tracing the Rise of Conceptual Art in the UAE
This notion of playfulness is the crucial lens through which to view this survey exhibition of artists from the United Arab Emirates
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The Octopus, a Motif of Evil in Historical Propaganda Maps
Since the 19th century, the motif of an octopus on propaganda maps has represented the inhuman spread of evil, its tentacles grasping for land and power.
Art
Required Reading
This week, whitewashing ancient history, Alice Neel's Indian-American portrait, taking an online architecture course at Harvard, the birth of global tourism, street libraries and neoliberalism, and more.