Film
The Wrongful Murder Conviction That Ignited a Pan-Asian Activist Movement
Arriving amid increased anti-Asian racism and continuing discourse about the inhumanity of its prison system, this documentary is a strong historical gut punch.
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Art
Giving Voice to an Artist Silenced too Soon
A "show within a show" at the Whitney Biennial pays homage to the visual and literary art of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, whose life was cut short through an act of brutal violence.
Art
Is Bleak the New Look for a TikTok Childhood?
Social media persona Sad Beige Werner Herzog presents a seemingly endless array of sniffling tots stuffed into gray, brown, and tan knits.
News
Museum in the Birthplace of Hip-Hop Gets $5.5M From NYC
A new Bronx location for the Universal Hip Hop Museum is set to open its doors in 2024.
News
New "Brain Painting" Tech Promises to Cure ADHD
Researchers at the University of South Florida have created a tool that can potentially help hone human concentration through the creation of art with only the power of the mind.
News
Artists Who Say They Were Silenced Agree to Six-Figure Settlement With Tate
The settlement comes after Tate prevented an artist who exposed sexual harassment by one of its largest donors from co-curating an exhibition.
News
Best Museum Bathrooms in the US, Ranked
Let’s be honest: On a best bathrooms list, no one wants to be number two.
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Canadian Artists May Soon Receive Royalties for Resold Works
Advocacy groups are pushing for a 5% royalty in resales, which would pertain even after the artist dies, in which case the funds would go to their estate.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the Getty Museum is returning ancient terracottas to Italy, parsing an antisemitic mural at Documenta, an ancient gold find in Denmark, a new puritanism, slavery in early Christianity, and much more.
Opinion
The Whitney Biennial Is Dangerously Quiet About US Imperialism
The absence of an explicit framing of American art, in all of its diversity, as a visual culture of empire distorts and hampers our ability to understand — and reimagine — our social world.
Art
Naotaka Hiro and Embodying the Act of Painting
The gap between the material body and the psychological one, which we all too often take for granted, is one of the underlying themes of Hiro's exhibition.
Art
Two Artists Address the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
David Rios Ferreira and Denae Shanidiin join forces to bring awareness to the plight of Indigenous women and girls, and LGBTQ+ individuals.