Art
The Artist Using Mushrooms to Address LA’s Poor Air Quality
Alice Könitz conducts art experiments with mycelium in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
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Film
A New Documentary Reveals Larry Fink’s Personal Side
A short documentary captures the later years and reflective musings of the iconic photographer, who passed away last year at the age of 82.
News
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts CEO Resigns Over Pro-Palestine Action
Sara Fenske Bahat cited the “Love Letter for Gaza” intervention on February 15 “and its unending repercussions.”
News
Pro-Palestine Activists Slash Portrait of British PM Associated With Nakba
The painting depicts Arthur Balfour, author of the 1917 declaration that established Britain's aim to create a Jewish state in Palestine.
News
Activists Disrupt Israeli Artist Michal Rovner's Opening at Pace Gallery
Demonstrators led a silent performance and dispersed fabric poppy petals inscribed with the names of Palestinians killed by Israel.
Art
Required Reading
This week, aging and women’s self-portraiture, the fictional language of Dune, an Air Canada AI nightmare, Terracotta army dancers, and much more.
News
Frida Kahlo Corporation Sues Amazon Vendors
The company that licenses the artist’s name and image says online merchants have manufactured and sold products without authorization.
News
Protesters Disrupt Event With Israeli Soldier on New School Campus
The lecture featured an Israeli lieutenant from the “terrorism unit” who was invited to recount his October 7 experiences.
News
MASS MoCA Workers Picket Museum on Second Day of Strike
The union is seeking a higher minimum wage and salary hikes across the board.
Opinion
That Time Carl Andre Wrote Me a Letter
He copyrighted the letter and ended it with “for your eyes only,” as if to say, don’t even think of showing this to anybody.
Art
Frank Auerbach Wrests Light From the Darkness
We can almost breathe the atmosphere of the sad London of the 1950s in Auerbach’s suite of charcoal portraits from the 1950s and 1960s.
Art
Georges Adéagbo Channels a Humanized Abraham Lincoln
Adéagbo teases out the exploitative and exhibitionist currents in aesthetic traditions, yet his world-making reclaims the emancipatory values of creative expression.