News
Hagia Sophia’s Marble Floors Suffer "Tremendous Damage,” Reports Say
Images circulating online appear to show cracked and damaged floors caused by heavy cleaning machinery used at the historic structure.
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Required Reading
This week, Kate Bush makes a comeback, Boris Johnson goes home, stop saying "OK Boomer," and more.
Art
Met Exhibition Brings Back the Color to Ancient Sculptures
Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color reminds us, once again, that our view of the ancient world is whitewashed.
Art
Pope.L Invites Us to “Enter The Mess” When Things Fall Apart
Whether through expansion or confusion, Pope.L plays with the instability of time and shows how tapping into this instability can unlock creative shifts in thinking.
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Sean Scully's Abstract Paintings Have Stories to Tell
Minimalism sought to empty out narrative pictorial content. Scully's goal has been to put it back.
Books
New Book Reveals the British Security Service's Surveillance of Major Artists
Red List lists a vast range of painters, sculptors, filmmakers, writers, and academics who were tracked by the MI5 for their perceived political affiliations.
Art
Samuel Delany, Grand Master of Afrofuturism
Surveying decades of his writing and criticism, Occasional Views contributes to a greater understanding of Delany’s unimpeachable stature.
News
Explosion Destroys Mysterious Georgia Doomsday Monument
The “Georgia Guidestones” attracted thousands of annual visitors and drew the ire of conservatives and conspiracists who deemed them “satanic.”
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Another Dinosaur Skeleton Hits the Auction Block
Sotheby’s is offering the first Gorgosaurus to ever go under the hammer, even as some critics find sales of dinosaur fossils appalling.
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Black Artist Attacked in White Supremacist March in Boston
Musician and activist Charles Murrell said he was assaulted by members of Patriot Front on his way to work.
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Philadelphia Faces Criticism for Commissioning a Harriet Tubman Statue From a White Artist
“Nana Harriet risked life and limb to be free so that no one White person would benefit off her person. And now we have someone white benefiting off of her,” said artist Maisha Sullivan-Ongoza.
Opinion
The Risks That Lurk in Europe's “Scramble for Decolonization”
As the global consensus on restitution passes the tipping point, some skepticism towards these sudden, improbable Damascene conversions towards restitution is probably justified.