Art
The Understated Beauty of Decorated Paper
Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s is a feast for the eyes.
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Taking Landscape Painting to New Heights
Beau Carey and Ian Fishers’ exhibition considers our relationship to the earth, from the top down.
Books
Maira Kalman Considers All That Women Hold
By turns whimsical and poignant, Kalman's Women Holding Things combines two of her most consistent subjects: women and beloved objects.
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The Artist Making T-Shirts Printed With Gay Men’s Blood
Zain Curtis's works protest anti-LGBTQ+ donation guidelines that date back to the 1980s AIDS crisis.
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“Nepo Baby” Memes Set the Internet Ablaze
For some of us, it’s not exactly news that rich and famous people are connected to other rich and famous people.
Comics
When Tuna Met Snoopy
Something strange happened when I watched "A Charlie Brown Christmas" with my cat Tuna.
Art
Asian-American Identity Through Quiet, Ordinary Gestures
Sometimes, exhibitions about identity demand too much of those bearing the identities, expecting them to speak explicitly to their experience.
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Nellie Mae Rowe’s Story of Freedom
Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe is brimming with examples of the artist’s imaginative allegorical art.
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NYC’s Five Boroughs, Reimagined in Gingerbread
An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrates the Big Apple in the most seasonal (and tastiest) medium of all.
News
“Sexy Robots” Are Coming to Miami
The Museum of Sex, based in New York, has revealed plans for an expansion to Florida in 2023.
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Jair Bolsonaro’s “Aesthetic Crisis” Is Coming to an End
The right-wing populist’s tenure has been marked by campaign aesthetics and fan art considered tacky at best.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a mysterious portrait of Joan Didion, considering Carolee Schneemann, privatizing libraries, Dalit discrimination, the "great internet grievance war," and more.