Film
A Batch of Video Essays for the Last Days of Winter
Donald Duck, Disney theme parks, and other excitement make up this month’s video essay roundup.
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Emily Eveleth’s Doughnuts Bleed for Our Sins
In Eveleth's work, debauchery and decadence meet in the lowly doughnut, which we are invited to read as a limbless torso with a dripping orifice.
Film
America Ferrera to Play Cuban Artist Ana Mendieta in New Series
The show is an adaptation of Naked by the Window, the 1990 book about Mendieta's career and Carl Andre’s suspected role in her death.
News
German Film Festival Hacked With Pro-Palestine Posts
Berlinale organizers quickly deleted the posts and disavowed the statement as filmmakers called for a Gaza ceasefire during a closing ceremony.
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MoMA PS1 Workers Urge Director Connie Butler to “Settle a Fair Contract”
In an action outside the museum, staff rallied for better wages and health benefits.
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Thousands of Art Workers Call for Israel’s Exclusion From the Venice Biennale
Nan Goldin, Michael Rakowitz, and others say that “platforming art representing a state engaged in ongoing atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza is unacceptable.”
Art
Albrecht Dürer, a Humanist Messiah
He believed, and demonstrated, that individuals could ascend to divine realms of knowledge.
Art
Prado Show Reveals the Hidden Artworks on the Backs of Masterpieces
On the Reverse tells an alternative history of Western art by drawing attention to the rears of paintings.
Art
Langston Hughes and Griff Davis’s History-Making Friendship
A new exhibition at the Schomburg Center presents decades of photographs, correspondence, and ephemera tracing the pair’s exchanges and collaborations.
Art
Women Chairmakers Get a Seat at the Table
Seating Assignment centers 15 female designers who are pushing the boundaries of the traditional furniture object.
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Can We Survive Without Reconnecting to the Earth?
Acts of Gathering challenges the disconnection between humans and the rhythms of the earth, interrogating the nature of food culture in a rapidly changing world.
Film
Onlookers Records the Lure of the Tourist Gaze
Kimi Takesue’s new documentary nudges us to consider whether we in the audience differ all that much from the tourists whipping out their iPhones.