Art
Kate Laster Carves Ancestral Memory Into Paper
“My art is about the people we carry with us,” she told Hyperallergic.
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Books
10 Brutalist Architects You Probably Never Heard Of
Owen Hopkins’s The Brutalists is an A-to-Z encyclopedia of blocky concrete and utopian ideals.
News
Justice Clarence Thomas Accepted Undisclosed Art Gifts From Conservative Donor
A ProPublica reports that among the luxury gifts and trips paid for by real estate developer Harlan Crow were several objects of cultural significance.
Film
MTV's The Exhibit Is All That's Wrong With the Art World
The sixth episode and season finale ultimately leaned into the very issues the reality show was ostensibly trying to address.
Opinion
The People of New York v. Donald Trump
In the courtroom, he released an uncanny, sociopathic remorselessness, and I was convinced firsthand of his deep and genuinely pathological confidence.
Announcement
GOING WITH THE FLOW: ART, ACTIONS, AND WESTERN WATERS
Artists from the Southwestern US explore the role of water during extreme droughts in a group exhibition at SITE Santa Fe curated by Lucy R. Lippard and Brandee Caoba.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the death of handwriting, how to spot far-right imagery, queerness is African, and is breakfast a colonial construct?
News
The Unsettling Story Behind a Surrealist Painting Headed to Auction
"Composition Surréaliste,” painted by Remedios Varo with possible contributions from her lovers, centers love, lust, violence, and sexual autonomy.
News
Barbie Movie Memes Are High Camp and We're Here For It
There's room for everyone in Barbie's world, from Flavor Flav to the cast of Succession.
Opinion
Nancy Yao Will Not Be Missed
As president of the Museum of Chinese in America, she patronized Chinatown residents and supported their displacement. She is not fit to lead the American Women's History Museum.
Interview
A Photographer's Fight for Yanomami Sovereignty
Over the past five decades, activist and photographer Claudia Andujar has worked with the Amazon’s Yanomami people to defend their native rights.
Art
Art for the End of Time
There are no common moves among artists in The Chicago Cli-Fi Library, except environmental grief as expressed through art-making.