News
North America's Oldest Mummy Returns to a Native Tribe
In one of the latest examples of American museums repatriating human remains, the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe was given control of the 10,600-year-old Spirit Cave mummy.
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Art
An Exclusive Glimpse of a Gilded Salon of Presidential Power
For his elegant new film, Laurent Grasso was allowed to film in the Salon Doré, the golden-hued office of the President of France.
Art
Navigate the Largest Survey of the Night Sky
An observatory on a Hawaiian volcano spent four years digitally surveying the night sky, resulting in the largest sky map to date.
Art
Understanding the Building Blocks of Our Machine World with Art
In a time of uncertainty, artists may offer insights and navigational aids for an emerging reality overwhelmingly dominated by technology and machines.
Books
An Atlas for the Mythical Places that Have Populated Our Maps
The Phantom Atlas chronicles centuries of fictional locations that were included on maps of the world.
Art
Learning from Decolonize This Place
Artists and activists involved in the Decolonize This Place residency at Artists Space reflect on its successes and how they can be models for future actions.
Art
When You Want to Be Part of the Nation, but It Won't Let You In
What is a nation, and who gets to belong?
In Brief
Philip Johnson Chapel Vandalized in Dallas
A Philip Johnson-designed chapel in Dallas was vandalized after the pastor spoke on a local conservative talk show.
Art
An Artist Reinvents Herself to Mine the Fictions of America
Genevieve Gaignard makes the personal political while also creating new American mythologies.
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Film
A Film Shows How Important It Is to Name One's Desire
Moonlight is largely about the violence done to Chiron that enmeshes him in silence, against the grain of moments of inexplicable kindness that break through to nurture him towards trust.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the death of the newspaper arts critic, an interview with Lorna Simpson, good things that happened in 2016, populism in Trumplandia, and more.