Opinion
Queer European Cinema Exposes the Realities of Migrant Experience
This rapidly expanding genre has had an upsurge since 2015, echoing the humanitarian crisis of a rising number of refugees entering the European Union.
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Film
The Worst Person in the World Is Among the Best Portraits of Modern Womanhood
Part of the glory of the film is that its heroine’s choices, however unexpected, are taken seriously.
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Wikipedia Launches “Wiki Unseen,” Commissioning Artists To Paint Portraits of BIPOC Figures
The new initiative aims to increase visual representation by adding images of individuals who are not currently portrayed on their Wikipedia pages.
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Thousands Pledge To Egg Jeff Bezos's Mega-Yacht As It Passes Through Rotterdam Bridge
“We don’t just take [Rotterdam] apart for the phallus symbol of a megalomaniac billionaire,” said the protest’s organizers, who oppose dismantling the historic bridge.
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Obama Portraits Tour Adds New Stops In San Francisco and Boston
The paintings were set to return to Washington, DC, but will instead go to the de Young Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
New York
Jennifer Packer Shows Us the Responsibility of Seeing
Most everything in this show, is unsure, a maybe, might be there, might not be, could fulfill your hopes, might leave them by the side of the road.
Art
Transcendental Painting Lives on in New Mexico and Beyond
The group of self-identified idealists, active until 1942, created nonrepresentational paintings of and from the creative imagination.
Art
Appreciating the Performative Quality of Computer Generated Art
Can electronic generative art be interpreted as performance with machines instead of bodies? What if we are too focused on results, rather than the process?
Art
The Secretive, Ritual Objects of Masonic Groups
Though masonic fraternal groups have existed for centuries, their rites and methods have long been shrouded in secrecy.
Film
Three Minutes of Film Are All That Remain of a Polish Jewish Town Before the Holocaust
What can be learned from just a short clip from a 1938 vacation film? The documentary Three Minutes — A Lengthening shows that it can be quite a bit.
News
The Most Hilarious Memes About Putin and Macron's Bizarre Kremlin Meeting
The exchange may have been a diplomatic failure, but it has yielded one of the best memes of the year so far.
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In a Georgia Elementary School, a Gay Rights Artwork Was Taken Down And Compared To a Nazi Symbol
In a leaked audio, the principal said that “children are going home and asking questions to parents who are…not ready to have that conversation at this age."