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Artists Condemn New Queens Development “Masquerading as a Cultural Benefit”
An open letter signed by hundreds of art workers, organizers, and community members accuses arts institutions of “artwashing” the $2 billion project.
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Interference Archive's Democratic Approach to Preservation
Run entirely by volunteers, Interference Archive is a true alternative to the city’s market-driven gallery scene.
Art
William T. Wiley's Wild Art Legacy
Nothing Is to Be Done for William T. Wiley is a roller derby of irreverent and energetic ideas and a serious revelation about Northern California’s art historical significance.
Books
The Patrons Who Sustained Sophie Taeuber-Arp
The letters between Taeuber-Arp and her patroness, Annie Müller-Widmann, show the usually invisible tending that goes into an artist-patron relationship.
Film
Different Hong Kong Generations Come Together in Protest Reenactments
Blending documentary and reenactment, director Chan Tze-woon compares and contrasts contemporary and historical activist movements.
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Following Outcry, GameStop Pulls Tasteless “Falling Man” NFT Evoking 9/11 Attacks
The artwork emulated photographer Richard Drew’s well-known image of a person leaping from one of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, 2001.
Art
Collage as a Strategy of Cultural Collision
Troy Montes-Michie cites the US/Mexico border as his “first experience with the language of collage,” describing it as an amalgamation of “two very separate cultures colliding on every level.”
Books
God Just Wants Us to Love Her Back
In a new graphic novel, author and cartoonist Liana Finck recasts the famously vengeful and masculine biblical God as an insecure and emotional female deity.
Film
Television’s Best Action Cartoon Is Back
Directed by virtuous animator Genndy Tartakovsky, Primal is a continuously inventive and exciting adventure through a prehistoric fantasy world.
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Climate Change Activists Glue Themselves to Priceless Botticelli Painting
The protest at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence was the most recent in a string of actions involving activists attaching themselves to artworks.
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Weekend Shooting Forces MFA Boston Into Lockdown
The museum shuttered for an hour on Saturday after a man was shot nearby, one of several recent incidents in the city involving an unlawful weapon.
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Lourdes Grobet, Iconic Mexican Photographer of Lucha Libre, Dies at 81
Her decades-long devotion to the world of wrestling is all the more noteworthy considering that her father forbade her from attending matches as a child, deeming them an inappropriate pastime for women.