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NYC Cultural Orgs Push for Funding as Budget Deadline Looms
Local advocates and institutions have called for an additional $53 million to raise the city’s cultural budget baseline.
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Required Reading
This week: curation and BDSM, America’s first lesbian magazine, myths about the human brain, and is smutty literature hurting our romantic relationships?
Interview
Carrie Yamaoka Thrives Between the Cracks
“For years I was an emerging artist and then it seemed like I couldn’t be called emerging anymore. Let’s hope we are all emerging, always,” the artist said.
Books
Trans Actress Candy Darling Gets the Biography She Deserves
Half a century after the Warhol film star’s death, writer and critic Cynthia Carr brings Darling’s life to light in an empathetic, well-researched new book.
Art
A Rewritten History of the Taiwanese-Japanese Sugar Trade
There Is Another Capital Beneath the Waves ruminates on commerce, colonization, and conflict between manipulative forces that fuel the engine of history.
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A View From the Easel
“I learned my studio has been occupied by 50 other artists from 25 countries, which fascinates me greatly.”
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Kehinde Wiley’s Accusers Respond to Concerns Over Canceled Museum Shows
“Artistic merit, while significant, should not take precedence over issues of moral injury and human dignity,” reads a response to issues raised by the National Coalition Against Censorship.
Interview
The Badass Punk Life of Kay Turner
Instead of “elder,” the 75-year-old artist, scholar, and bandleader prefers the moniker "magnificent hag."
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Artist of Fiery King Charles Portrait Debuts Moss-Green Attenborough Painting
Green? For David Attenborough? Groundbreaking.
Art
The Fetishistically Fantastic Art of Christina Ramberg
Ramberg was one of the lesser-known — but, to my mind, most exciting — artists often grouped together as the Chicago Imagists.
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An Early Portrait Commissioned by an American Born Into Slavery Goes on View
Now on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the painting is thought to depict Mary Ann Tritt Cassell, a mixed-race woman who lived in the 1800s.
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Scorching Heat Wave Turns Lincoln Wax Statue Into a Hot Mess
The Lincoln Memorial replica went viral online after peak temperatures melted the head off the 16th president’s likeness.