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Pistachio Billionaires Accused of Artwashing California’s Water Crisis
Museum donors Lynda and Stewart Resnick’s orchards in California’s Central Valley reportedly use more water than all the homes in LA combined.
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Washington Post Takes Down Offensive Anti-Palestinian Cartoon
The drawing by conservative cartoonist Michael Ramirez was widely criticized as “racist” and “orientalist.”
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Artists Decry Company’s Decision to Pull Mass Incarceration Billboards
Titled 8 x 5 Houston in reference to the minimum required square footage of a jail cell in Texas, the project featured designs by formerly incarcerated artists.
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The Many Faces of Guadalajara's Famed Ceramics Studio
In the 1990s, Cerámica Suro began to seek out artists, offering its facility as the site for experimental collaborations in clay.
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New Haven Mural Honors Prison Abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore
The community-led artwork also spotlights the city’s continued advocacy for racial and economic justice.
Opinion
Do Not Stand Idly By
It is because of my proximity to the memory of genocide in Nazi-occupied Poland that I am speaking out against the American-supported Israeli invasion of Gaza.
Film
Online Film Series Spotlights Palestinian Voices
After the Arab Film Festival was postponed, organizers launched a new program of feature-length films, documentaries, and shorts that focus on personal stories.
Art
Ali Cherri’s Muddy Affair
The artist retells the myth of Gilgamesh through a meditation on mud, a primordial material and source of timeless storytelling.
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On Getting Things a Little Less Wrong
Climate Futurism suggests that the world’s civilizations must process lessons from its fraught colonialist histories to prepare for future ecological difficulties.
Art
What’s That Weird AI Bird Popping Up All Over TikTok?
The strange and ever-changing “Erosion Bird” meme taps into the uncanniness and inconsistency of artificial intelligence.
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Averting Strike, Brooklyn Museum Union Ratifies First Contract
The union secured wage increases and other wins just a day before a planned strike deadline and amid an ongoing unfair labor practices complaint.
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Cuban Artist's Message of Defiance From Prison
"There rises within me a rebellious spirit, that does not allow me to resign myself," says Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara.