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This week, national participation in the Venice Biennale, teen depression in the US, the "pity me" personal essay, reimagining borders, and more.
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News
NFT of Jack Dorsey Tweet That Sold For $2.9M Has Tanked in Value
Crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi tried to sell the NFT and recent bids stand at just a couple thousand.
News
NEH Doles Out $33M for 245 Projects, Including Archive for Looted Syrian Archeological Site
The total represents a modest increase from the $28.4 million that was doled out to 239 projects in 2021.
News
Plans to Build a Holocaust Memorial in London Halted
Campaigners against the proposal worried that the design would incur on green space and detract from a slavery abolition monument nearby.
Art
Is It an Artificial Paradise or an Artificial Hell or Both?
Elliott Green seems to be espousing that landscapes are living forms governed by rules we cannot fathom — they appear to be welcoming us, but we might be wrong.
Art
An Artist's Monument to the Monotony of Images
Bayrle creates an art gallery version of computer reproductions of unreality. His art inhabits a world composed of repeated ready-made images.
Art
Is Touching Sculpture Sexier After Zoom Fatigue?
The sensation of touching isn’t the point. It’s the yearning — heightened during quarantines — that lives on in these sculptures.
Opinion
Pissing on Faces or When Women Behave Badly
When Sophia Urista urinated on an audience member onstage, her act was framed and understood in a particularly gendered way.
Film
In The Girl and the Spider, Voyeurism Is Both Comical and Creepy
Everybody seems to be infatuated with everyone else in the film, locking eyes with an intensity that could shame a tantra guru.
Film
Years After its Release, a Film about Ukraine’s Donbass Region Seems Relevant Again
Initially released in 2018 but never getting a proper run in the US, Sergei Loznitsa’s Donbass now finally comes to theaters.
News
Dripping in "Oil," Activists Protest BP Sponsorship of Stonehenge Exhibition
The protesters also targeted the British government’s controversial plan to build a road near the Stonehenge site.
News
As COVID Cases Surge in NYC, Some Museums Are Lifting Their Mask Mandates
The Whitney and MoMA are the first two major art museums to stop enforcing masking and vaccination.