News
From the Bronx to Brooklyn, Confederate Symbols Come Down Across New York City
Mayor Bill de Blasio has launched a review of "all symbols of hate on city property," and some have already been removed.
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Art
The Dance Floor as a Site for Queer Memorials
This Friday at Recess, Brendan Fernandes will explore the possibilities of the dance floor as a queer space.
Art
A Dutch Street Photographer Who Pursued Darker Truths
A retrospective of Ed van der Elsken at the Jeu de Paume in Paris examines his embrace of youth culture and his travels around the world.
Announcement
Maine College of Art's American Genre: Contemporary Painting Closes September 15 with Daylong Symposium
Currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, the show will end with a symposium and a panel discussion moderated by Barry Schwabsky.
Art
A 1980s-Style Game Takes You Through a Wikipedia Rabbit Hole
Wikipedia: The Text Adventure by Kevan Davis turns Wikipedia's data into a pixelated game that you navigate through typed directions.
Art
Women of Color Find Their Rightful Place in the History of American Abstraction
According to the Kemper Museum, Magnetic Fields is the first museum exhibit in the US to show abstract artwork created exclusively by women of color.
Art
A Designer's Game About Arranged Marriages, Inspired by Her Own Journey
In Nashra Balagamwala's board game, players are teenage girls pursued by an aunty who wants to marry them to any boy she can locate.
Art
A Pop-Up Museum Devoted to O.J. Simpson
Adam Papagan's O.J. Simpson Museum at Coagula Curatorial is baldly commercial, but it also demonstrates how much of a cultural touchstone the famous trial has become.
History
A Nostalgic Trip Through Roadside America's Weirdest Sites
The Library of Congress has digitized and uploaded some 11,000 slides of images shot by photographer John Margolies as he traveled more than 100,000 miles over a three-decade period.
Art
A Concert of Protest Songs at LA Louver
On Wednesday, August 23, poet, songwriter, and Beach Boys collaborator Stephen Kalinich will read his own poetry and perform with the Los Angeles-based collective Divinity Band.
Art
A Jazz Documentary on a Summer's Day
The 1959 documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day, screening on August 23 at the New York Public Library, is considered one of the first music festival films.
News
225-Year-Old Columbus Monument in Baltimore Attacked with Sledgehammer
Video footage showing someone taking a sledgehammer to the memorial's base was posted on Popular Resistance's YouTube channel this morning.