News
Providence College Cancels Exhibition Over "Anti-Catholic" Artwork
Artist Shey "Ri Acu" Rivera Ríos has received an outpouring of support from faculty and students after their work was deemed “sacrilegious.”
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Art
Tracing the 500-Year History of the English Dictionary
An exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York shows that lexicographers are just like us: petty, creative, and political.
Art
Pratt MFA Photographers Turn Landscapes into Critiques of Power
The students put their own spins on landscape photography to coax out questions of race, power, sexuality, and sustainability.
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Workers at Maryland’s Glenstone Museum Move to Unionize
Staff at the private contemporary art museum, founded by billionaires Mitchell and Emily Rales, say they want fair wages and an improved work environment.
Art
Lauren Lee McCarthy Swaps Stories of Saliva and Surveillance
Bodily Autonomy takes advantage of humor and hyperbole to demonstrate a very real world in which biosurveillance is prevalent overtly and covertly.
Art
Yinka Shonibare’s Patterns of Decolonization
In a gallery such as Serpentine, defined by both Britishness and blue-chip status in the art world, how much can categories be suspended?
Books
The Anti-Spectacle of the Black Avant-Garde
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman’s Millennial Style considers the political utility of Black abstraction and related forms to refute false narratives of progress.
News
Bard College to Get Massive New “Keith Haring Wing”
The late artist left a legacy at the school when he gave a lecture in 1981 and drew one of his iconic motifs on a wall.
Art
Ecological Crisis Echoes Through the Church of San Lorenzo
Restor(y)ing Oceania provides a powerful sense of the devastation faced by Pacific Islanders — and the ecosystems that may soon be lost.
Art
When “Made in China” Becomes a Poem
Rather than deduce manufacturers’ intentions with typo-ridden clothing, the collective New York Shanzhai Lyric trains attention on the artistic value of these texts.
Opinion
The Palestine Congress That Never Was
Inside Berlin’s censorship of a Palestine solidarity conference that police shut down as soon as it began.
Opinion
Celebrating Seder at Columbia’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment
The student protest was a most fitting setting for a peaceful, focused, and deeply moving Passover seder.