In Brief
Report on the State of Humanities Is Cautiously Optimistic
Amid much handwringing about the future of books and arts, the Academy of American Arts and Sciences released its annual report on the state of the humanities last week.
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Books
A Personal Journey Through the Legacy of Apartheid
Catherine Taylor’s book centers on her search — what feels like an obsessive search — through veins of history buried in the time of apartheid in South Africa, where she and her family are from.
News
The French Love Hearts, Canadians Prefer Poop, and Other Emoji Trends
A new report breaking down emoji use by country and language found that hearts make up 55% of emoji typed by French speakers. That’s four times the international average.
News
Paris Pledges €80 Million to Fix Historic Buildings, but Much More Is Needed
The city of Paris will spend €80 million (~$85.9 million) over the next five years fixing up and restoring the 96 historic buildings it is responsible for maintaining.
Art
The Serious Business of 'New Yorker' Cartoons
"Cartoons either make the strange familiar or the familiar strange," says New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff in Leah Wolchok's documentary about the magazine's enduring cartoon department, Very Semi-Serious.
Art
An Artist Considers the Trauma of His Two Homelands
LONDON — “Nagorno” is a Russian word for “mountain,” while “Karabakh” is a word of Turkic and Persian origin meaning “black garden.” When joined by a hyphen, the two words denote the boiling point of the Caucasus: Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed enclave — one of post-Soviet Europe’s “frozen conflicts”
Community
A View from the Easel
Artists' studios in Boston, Austin, Houston, London, and Wexford, Ireland.
Interview
Women's Rage: A Conversation with the Creator of 'Bitch Planet'
A comic book industry veteran for the last decade, Kelly Sue DeConnick first earned her chops adapting manga to English.
Art
Kehinde Wiley's "Politics of Perception"
The California-born, Yale-educated, Brooklyn-based painter Kehinde Wiley is an oddly polarizing artist, whose massive figurative paintings inspire both rage and adoration from his viewers.
Art
Blast the Forces of Tradition in a Game Inspired by 20th-Century Modernism
What would a video game developed in 1923 by a bunch of angry modern artists look like?
Art
Arming Kabul's Girls with Skateboards
"She was wearing such a beautiful color, a sort of inky teal," photographer Jessica Fulford-Dobson said of the Afghan girl with the carefully tied headscarf whose portrait she took last year.
Art
A Documentary Portrait of Peggy Guggenheim, Collector of Art and Artists
Peggy Guggenheim did enough living for 10 people.