News
Gallery Nixes Ai Weiwei Show After Tweet About Israel
Lisson Gallery says the show was postponed; the artist says it was “effectively canceled.”
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Art
The Unsung Women of American Land Art
Groundswell is a crucial reexamination of important but under-recognized artists working with the land.
Art
The Many Voices of Raven Chacon’s While Hissing
Amplifying the voices of Native women, the artist issues a collective call to resistance through visual art, music, and community.
Film
The Commodification of American Motherhood
How to Have an American Baby exposes a Chinese business that cares only for the bottom line, and a private US hospital system more than happy to serve patients paying cash.
News
Thief Makes Off With $100K Chagall in NYC Gallery Break-In
A suspect wearing blue gloves carried the framed work down the sidewalk to their car and drove off.
Art
As a History Professor, This Is How I Use AI in Class
Instead of assigning my routine Gladiator review, I asked students to query ChatGPT about the film’s historical inaccuracies.
Art
The Democratic Power of the Risograph
The risograph’s handmade aesthetic has become associated with posters, broadsheets, zines, and pamphlets, and has been embraced by small publishers.
Books
The Fairytale Charm of Soviet Country Dachas
Fyodor Savintsev’s photographs of the small wooden cottages capture the aesthetics and ethos of “a slower, more traditional pace of life.”
Art
Rupy C. Tut’s Landscapes of Belonging
Her paintings, springing from traditional Indian miniature painting made large, radiate both rootedness and displacement.
Film
Filmmakers, Arts Orgs, and Cultural Workers Boycott IDFA
Cultural groups and artists are withdrawing from the film festival over allegations of institutional censorship of the Palestinian liberation movement.
News
Climate Activists Crash Christie’s Auction in New York
“No art on a dead planet,” they chanted, demanding an end to fossil fuels.
Art
The Mythmaking Apparatus of the US National Parks
In quiet yet scrupulous detail, Designing Experience asks how the US National Park Service shapes the narratives it tells about this country and the lands it claims.