Film
The Experience of Deafness in a Hearing World
Alison O’Daniel’s 2023 film The Tuba Thieves weaves a series of band room robberies in LA public schools into a moving exploration of sound and hearing.
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Art
Art in the Early 2000s China Boom
Cruel Youth Diary: Chinese Photography and Video greets us with the dizziness befitting a period of rapid economic growth and social change.
Art
Can We Find Compassion in the Grotesque?
Monstrous Faces and Caricatures invites viewers to confront ugliness and the questions it raises about how we relate to it.
News
Florida Pushes Law to Sue Over Removal of Confederate Monuments
The new bill would allow civilians to sue for three times the cost of the statue’s repair or replacement and limit the addition of contextualizing material like plaques.
Opinion
Why Charging Admission to Rome’s Pantheon Is a Bad Idea
What is the excuse for charging people for something that was free for 1,900 years?
News
Prison Abolition Art in Florida Removed Under University Pressure
The University of Florida’s off-campus art gallery was vandalized after the school asked its curator to take down banners criticizing the local police department.
Announcement
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival Celebrates 27th Edition in Toronto
The 2023 festival includes public art by Genesis Báez, Seif Kousmate, and Hélène Amouzou visualizing intersections of land, migration, and imagination.
Film
MTV’s The Exhibit Was a Ratings Flop
Compared to predecessors like Bravo’s 2012 "Gallery Girls," the art world reality TV show tanked.
Interview
Can You Buy the Time of a Political Prisoner?
Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who remains behind bars at the Guanajay maximum security prison, talks to Claudia Genlui Hidalgo about his latest — and unconventional — project.
Film
Internet Perplexed by Netflix’s Black Cleopatra
Critics say producer Jada Pinkett Smith and the streaming platform should center the stories of historical Black women instead of rewriting history.
News
NYPD Arrests Artist Painting Message of Support for Unhoused Man
Helena Münninghoff, a formerly unhoused resident of the East Village, was arrested for painting a call for help for her friend on a construction fence.
Art
Can We Ever Get Closer to Vermeer?
Even when his style is at its most self-effacing, smoothly drawing us into the moment, we remain, inevitably, outside.