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This week in art news: Iraqi troops recaptured the ancient city of Hatra from ISIS, President Trump ordered a review of national monument designations, and a set of uncanny sleeping masks won the Rijksmuseum’s design contest.
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The Political, Pornographic, Experimental World of Public Access TV
At BRIC House, Public Access/Open Networks will feed your nostalgia for channel-surfing.
Art
A Searing Show Commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the 1992 LA Uprising
Re-Imagine Justice at the Community Coalition takes a deeper look at the causes of the uprising while highlighting current issues of injustice and inequality.
Film
Glimpses of Laurie Simmons’s Life and Art in Her First Feature Film
Laurie Simmons’s new feature film, My Art, screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, includes many metafictional nods to the artist's real life.
Art
The Liberation of '90s R&B Divas
In her solo show at American Medium, E. Jane reconsiders the musical genre as a site of black freedom.
In Brief
Metropolitan Museum May Start Charging Admission to Out-of-Towners
The museum is in talks with municipal officials about potentially charging tourists a mandatory admission fee.
Art
A Photographer’s Images of a Changing Seoul After the Korean War
An exhibition at ICP at Mana showcases the pictures made by Han Youngsoo upon returning from the front line.
News
Two Art Projects Help You Fax Your Discontent to Politicians
Through Artifax and Post Fax, constituents can send lawmakers and their staffers messages of support for the NEA and a more progressive agenda.
Announcement
Public Programs for Robert Stadler at the Noguchi Museum
Solid Doubts: Robert Stadler at The Noguchi Museum is the museum’s first exhibition in which a contemporary designer’s work is installed in tandem with Isamu Noguchi’s sculptures.
Film
Known for Silent Movies About Buildings, a Filmmaker Turns to Music and Conversation
Two films marking a new phase of Heinz Emigholz’s prolific career are being screened at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Art of the Real series.
Art
A Flattened World Full of Intimacy
In his solo show at Terrault Contemporary, Devin N. Morris suggests that touching paper need not differ from touching flesh.
Art
Three Lessons from Artists’ Protests of the Whitney Museum in the 1960s–70s
Activist efforts targeting the Whitney Museum of American Art across the 1960s and ’70s provide a starting point to consider the ways in which activists today can effect meaningful changes.