Interview
Levon Kafafian Weaves a Queer Armenian Future
The Detroit-based nonbinary artist breathes new life into customs and traditions, giving them a space to grow with the diaspora.
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Film
The Films That Presaged Our AI Future
A new Criterion Channel film collection spanning five decades examines the pressing existential questions surrounding artificial intelligence today.
Books
A Poet's “Almost Obscene” Devotion to Beauty
The poems of Raúl Gómez Jattin — by turns agile, charming, intimate, and dark — have long been pushed out of sight.
Art
Miller Robinson on Love, Care, and Salmon Skin
"It feels like an (un)learning," the LA-based artist says of its practice. "It's an unresolved process, and it's part of how I understand the world around me."
News
Hundreds of Mermaids Spotted in Coney Island
Crowds flocked to Coney for the 41st Annual Mermaid Parade this weekend.
Art
Artists Pay Homage to Histories Preserved and Forgotten
As Yet and Still to Come points to the precariousness of time and the selectiveness of archives.
Art
Confronting Hate Chronicles the Virus of Prejudice
The Fordham exhibition spotlights centuries of hierarchical structures designed to dehumanize Black and Jewish people and question their right to be equal citizens.
Art
Making Art 10 Years After Turkey’s Gezi Protests
In Berlin, where many artists settled after the protests that shook Turkey a decade ago, an exhibition grapples with the political repression and exile that followed.
News
Translator Says British Museum Used Her Work Without Permission
The London institution is taking down Yilin Wang's translations of Qiu Jin's poems after Wang called out the museum in a Twitter thread.
Art
Alexander Tovborg Seeks the Sacred in the Aesthetic
Kirken works because modern galleries have quasi-religious qualities, with white walls and empty spaces creating an atmosphere for contemplation.
Art
A Piece of Puerto Rico in Chicago
Edra Soto's art brings with it the fabulous look and feel of tropical architectural solutions but not always the pain and difficulty of diasporic life.
Art
An Indigenous MFA Program Moves Beyond "Mastery"
Beyond Mastery illustrates how the Institute of American Indian Arts is liberating and expanding truly beyond those expectations of Indigenous art.