Film
Experimental Gems at the Toronto International Film Festival
The festival has released the lineup for its Wavelengths section, focused on avant-garde and provocative film media, and its Classics program.
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Art
Artists Get Inside the “Glitch”
The glitch, perhaps, is that we thought technology, the earth, and the spirit were all separate things when really they all glide together.
Art
Required Reading
This week, delightfully silly pet photography, ranking art historical tassels, a screenwriter’s musings on AI jokes, art collectors and tax breaks, and much more.
Art
Painting Between the Machine and the Hand
For more than three decades, Lydia Dona has generated enigmatic abstractions that join together legible and indecipherable parts.
Art
The History of Breast Milk in Art
Milk is not only humanity’s food but also a liquid dripping with symbolism, from spiritual salvation to maternal devotion.
Opinion
You Can Never Be Complicit Enough for the Turkish Art World
As we consider the rejection of Defne Ayas as the curator of the next Istanbul Biennial, it's time to examine how genocide denial has long been a staple of the art world in Turkey.
News
Wildfires in Hawaiʻi Engulf Cultural and Historic Sites
Losses in Maui include the Na ‘Aikane o Maui Cultural Center, the Baldwin Home Museum, and the 122-year-old Pioneer Inn.
News
Innovative Abstract Painter Brice Marden Dies at 84
Marden, who would often work and rework a painting for years, pushed abstraction in a new direction.
Art
The Radical Queer Aesthetics of Gay Power
With the tagline of “New York’s first homosexual newspaper,” the publication integrated political news and local activism with erotic art and photography.
Art
The Black History of the Montgomery Brawl Folding Chair
The folding chair — a design of which was patented by a Black American inventor — has emerged as an iconic motif of the viral scene.
News
O'Shae Sibley Vigil Shows a Community Fighting for Justice
Photographs of a memorial at the gas station where Sibley was killed convey anger, loss, and a unified message: “We are done dying in silence.”
Books
Looking at a Painter Through the Lens of a Film
If the film Nainsukh was a painstaking endeavor to immortalize the titular artist, a new book aims to achieve the same for its singular subject.