Art
When a Documentary Film Unveils a Massacre
In 1965–66, Indonesia’s military set off a killing spree. A new documentary film, The Act of Killing, has begun to illuminate the events in an unprecedented way.
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Art
A New Vision for Chicago's Oldest Feminist Gallery
CHICAGO — The feminist art space Woman Made Gallery (WMG) is shifting its vision to one that focuses on feminism and feminist art-making as it relates to class, ethnicity and age.
Opinion
Hole-y Terror and Evolution
OAKLAND, Calif. — Many common phobias make intuitive sense. Fear of snakes, fear of spiders, fear of heights — it's easy to understand that these crippling phobias emerge from natural cautions we've inherited from millions of years of evolution.
Opinion
Reexamining Picasso's Politics
Legend has it that Pablo Picasso was a lifelong Communist. But, as it turns out, it was more complicated than that.
Opinion
Ask Me Anything: Reddit's (Very) Tentative Embrace by the Cultural Elite
Yesterday, The Paris Review did a Reddit AMA, which by now is a reliable station on the digital PR circuit.
Art
Your Easy Guide to Greenpoint Gallery Night
Our guide to this Friday's Greenpoint Gallery Night … featuring 15 galleries across North Brooklyn.
Art
Why Was a Major Outsider Art Survey 91.3% Male?
LONDON — A major survey of outsider art, Hayward Gallery's Alternative Guide to the Universe closed on August 26. It was a show featuring many of outsider art's most prolific practitioners of the last several decades, all under the aegis of providing institutional space for "alternative" modes of kn
Opinion
The Literal Floating World of Video Games in Ukiyo-E Art
OAKLAND, California — Ukiyo-e Heroes, a new series by American artists Jed Henry and Dave Bull, continues the ukiyo-e form with video game characters.
Interview
Toward a New Queer Theology
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands — With his wild-man beard, piratical silver earrings, heavy-rimmed specs and abiding interest in the occult, it wasn’t clear just how an unscheduled interview with sexagenarian AA Bronson would unfold.
News
LA's Murals to Return with New Ordinance
OAKLAND, Calif. — For the past ten years, LA's murals have been an endangered species.
Comics
Context Is Everything
It looks so much better here …
Art
The Cacophony Society and Adventures in Urban Voids
It's an exciting moment for a certain type of person when you find you are not a solitary traveler into the voids of the city.