Books
Renee Gladman’s Poems Explore How Words Can Be “Read” as Images
Gladman’s poems suggest how ecological knowledge can affect how we can imagine cities.
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A Trip Through the Many Worlds of David Bowie
With Moonage Daydream, director Brett Morgen sought to let Bowie’s music and philosophy hit in a whole new way, immersing audiences in an IMAX experience.
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Workers Crash Carnegie International Opening, Demanding Fair Wages
The union says 60% of employees at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh make less than $15 an hour.
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Ancient Roman Mosaic in Danger of Falling Into the Sea
The floor mosaic is part of a 50-dwelling Roman villa built in the second century on a cliff in Kent that is in danger of falling into the sea.
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Museum Cancels Drag Show After Armed Protesters Show Up
Members of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys joined a group of religious parents gathered outside Memphis’s Museum of Science & History.
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New UK Law Allows Museums to Return Objects For "Moral" Reasons
The law will apply only in "rare cases," one expert says, but nevertheless signals a shift from past legal restrictions.
Art
Alone in a Dirty, Sacred Space
Whatever else Mire Lee's Carriers is about, it seems to me that has to do with sending you back into yourself, which is not necessarily a soothing place.
Art
The Andy Warhol Lecture That Never Happened
It's been 55 years since Warhol hired a lookalike to prank students at the University of Utah. What lessons on celebrity and capitalist consumption did his hoax reveal?
Books
“Inside the Seed, There Is a Kingdom”
Julia Guez knows that her poetry can make a "real ask" of readers, with its peculiar vocabulary and indeterminate tendencies, and that gives her hope.
Art
Otters Are Art History’s Unsung Muses
From ancient times to the present day, join us as we pay tribute to these otter-ly charismatic creatures in various visual media.
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Poeticizing and Politicizing Black and Asian American Abstraction
Columbia University exhibition thwarts the de-politicization of postwar abstract art with a series of provocative questions.
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Cheeky Ad Campaign Protests Airlines’ Role in Climate Change
Some 500 satirical guerilla billboard ads posted across Europe featured texts such as "#SayYesToTheEndOfTheWorld" and “Low Fares to Plastic island.”