Art
Can Commodities Really Critique Commodity Culture?
Given a platform to say something — about first-world capitalism, its attendant environmental destruction, or the definition of the self through objects — why not use it?
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Performance
Digital Theater Is Not Just a Pandemic Fad, Creators Say
The art form continues to survive the return of in-person theatre, but maker-performers struggle with a lack of institutional support.
Film
The Story of a Man’s Friendship With a Cloud
Through its magical realism, The Cloud & the Man posits the power of love in adding a tinge of color to an overlooked, black-and-white life.
Opinion
AI Art Is Soft Propaganda for the Global North
Unsurprisingly, the artistic and ethical shortcomings of AI image generators are tied to their dependence on capital and capitalism.
News
The Most Pawesome Looks From NYC’s Halloween Dog Parade
“Frito Pawlo'' stunned, Mochi struck a pious pose as the Pope, and a “Bodega Cat” pupper took the top prize.
News
Climate Activists Give Monet’s “Grainstacks” a Mashed Potato Facial
Germany’s Barberini Museum is the latest institution hit by the burgeoning food-on-masterpieces trend of climate activism.
News
Artists Stage Mahsa Amini Protest at New York’s Guggenheim Museum
An anonymous group of Iranian artists dropped 12 banners with the words “Woman, Life, Freedom” and portraits of Amini.
Art
The Brazilian Women Clowns Fighting Back Against Bolsonaro
Palhaçaria feminina, or female clowning, is uniquely situated at the crosshairs of the president’s rhetoric against women, artists, and leftists.
Art
Juan Sánchez's Nuyorican State of Mind
From painting to photography, the artist’s sophisticated hybrid aesthetic echoes the very condition of being Nuyorican.
Art
The V&A Wanted to Subvert Toxic Masculinity but Ended Up Reinforcing It
The exhibition Fashioning Masculinities lets men have their cake and eat it too.
Art
Unboxing the Origins of Civilization
With cardboard paintings, Omar Ba honors African cultures and challenges the Eurocentric view of history.
Performance
Hope and Agony According to Felwine Sarr
Traces — Speech to African Nations is a spoken word piece with music written by the acclaimed Senegalese scholar and performed by the Burkinabé actor Étienne Minoungou.