Film
Different Hong Kong Generations Come Together in Protest Reenactments
Blending documentary and reenactment, director Chan Tze-woon compares and contrasts contemporary and historical activist movements.
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Following Outcry, GameStop Pulls Tasteless “Falling Man” NFT Evoking 9/11 Attacks
The artwork emulated photographer Richard Drew’s well-known image of a person leaping from one of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, 2001.
Art
Collage as a Strategy of Cultural Collision
Troy Montes-Michie cites the US/Mexico border as his “first experience with the language of collage,” describing it as an amalgamation of “two very separate cultures colliding on every level.”
Books
God Just Wants Us to Love Her Back
In a new graphic novel, author and cartoonist Liana Finck recasts the famously vengeful and masculine biblical God as an insecure and emotional female deity.
Film
Television’s Best Action Cartoon Is Back
Directed by virtuous animator Genndy Tartakovsky, Primal is a continuously inventive and exciting adventure through a prehistoric fantasy world.
News
Climate Change Activists Glue Themselves to Priceless Botticelli Painting
The protest at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence was the most recent in a string of actions involving activists attaching themselves to artworks.
News
Weekend Shooting Forces MFA Boston Into Lockdown
The museum shuttered for an hour on Saturday after a man was shot nearby, one of several recent incidents in the city involving an unlawful weapon.
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Lourdes Grobet, Iconic Mexican Photographer of Lucha Libre, Dies at 81
Her decades-long devotion to the world of wrestling is all the more noteworthy considering that her father forbade her from attending matches as a child, deeming them an inappropriate pastime for women.
Art
A Contemporary Look at Judaica
Artist Zsuzsa Ujj carries the tradition of handcrafted Hungarian ceremonial Jewish artwork to the 21st century.
Art
Judy Chicago’s Wo/Manhouse 2022 Could Use Some More Diversity
Although more inclusive than the original 1972 Womanhouse, the current remake would still benefit from more BIPOC artists, a broader intersectional dialogue, and a wider breadth of lived experience.
Art
In Trying Times, Buddhist Art Offers Spiritual Refuge
Institutions from the Newark Museum to the Rubin Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum recognize the presently growing need for compassionate spaces.
Film
The First Feature Documentary Made Entirely in Virtual Reality
We Met in Virtual Reality raises the bar for VR filmmaking, and has an optimistic vision for the potential of the metaverse.