Interview
An Experimental AI Film Director Calls it Quits
For years, Eye Filmmuseum’s Jan Bot has turned film fragments into digital experimental shorts. Now, with the project ending, those shorts will be archived via NFT.
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News
BeReal App Gets Real Roasted With Memes
The popular BeReal app, which prompts users to post within a two-minute window at a random time every day, has become prime fodder for memes.
News
The Rare Leica Camera That Smashed Auction Records
Earlier this summer, one of only 22 models of the Leica prototype "0-Series" quietly sold for over $15 million — five times the previous record for a camera.
Art
A Studio Visit With Keren Benbenisty
From the migration of fish to the cultivation and branding of new citrus varietals, Benbenisty’s practice tracks seemingly natural phenomena while questioning their political and ecological ramifications.
News
Three Arrested During "Die-In" Protest for Abortion Rights Outside LACMA
Activists chained themselves to the cast-iron lampposts of Chris Burden’s outdoor sculpture installation “Urban Light” (2008) and covered themselves in fake blood.
Art
Leonora Carrington’s Little-Known Explorations of Jewish Mysticism
In her designs for S. Ansky’s play The Dybbuk, the artist blends various visual and mythological strands of her European background with those of her adopted home of Mexico.
Art
Required Reading
This week, criticism of New York's proposed "feminist jail," activists are losing steam, cultural appropriation parodies on TikTok, and more.
News
Frida, The Musical Is Coming to Broadway in 2024
The musical is the first such telling of Kahlo’s life that has been sanctioned by her family, and draws in part on details from Intimate Frida, a book by her niece Isolda P. Kahlo.
Art
A New VR Experience Takes You Into a Museum of Stolen Masterpieces
The “Stolen Art Gallery” features five works by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Manet, Cézanne, and van Gogh, long lost to public view but fully visible in the metaverse.
Opinion
Donatello's Queer Glamour
The unorthodox bodies that Donatello sculpted seem intertwined with the unorthodox relationship he developed between his own body and the bodies of other queer men.
Art
Josefina Auslender's Portraits of Argentina's Dirty War
Auslender's art brings personal associations and a sense of intimacy to images of torture based on the crimes of Argentina's ruling junta from 1974 to 1983.
Art
Dancing to the Borscht Beat
Aaron Bendich draws from his massive collection of Yiddish records to share an hour of otherwise hidden music on his radio show Borscht Beat. Recently, he also launched an independent Yiddish record label.