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New Twitter Policy Bans Posting Photos of People Without Consent
The guidelines are specifically meant to combat a form of online harassment known as doxing.
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Your Concise New York Art Guide for December 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.
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Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for December 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month.
Art
Self-Portrait as Future
When looking at images from the golden age of Sudanese photography, I was reminded to listen as much as look.
Art
The Poetics of an Invisible Market
“I'm making a financial instrument as an artwork. That’s the new reality.” She stares unwavering into the distance. “What is existence on the blockchain? Does an NFT exist?”
Books
New Book Brings Virginia Woolf's Little-Known Art Criticism To Light
Oh, to Be a Painter! collects nine of Woolf’s published art reviews, catalogue essays, and experimental texts from 1920 to 1936.
Film
A Wealth of Never-Before-Seen Footage is Restored for The Beatles: Get Back
Casual and obsessive fans of the band alike will appreciate the sheer volume of new material in Peter Jackson’s epic-length docuseries.
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Gee’s Bend Quilts, Purvis Young Works, and More Enter Five University Collections
Thirty artworks entered the collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, the Hood Museum of Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, the RISD Museum, and the Hampton University Museum.
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Turkey Faces Suspension From Council of Europe if Osman Kavala Is Not Freed
Amnesty International urged the council to begin infringement proceedings against Turkey for its arbitrary detainment of the arts philanthropist.
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Catherine the Great's Pro-Vaccination Letter Heads to Auction
The sovereign led a mass vaccination campaign against smallpox that laid the groundwork for over two million Russians to be inoculated against the deadly disease
Art
Kidlat Tahimik's Subversive Retelling of the Philippines' Colonial History
To showcase this work exactly 500 years after Magellan’s conquest of the Philippines in a space that, 134 years ago, was a “human zoo” of Indigenous people from the Philippines, is certainly poignant.
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The Queer Feminist Agenda of Wilder Alison’s Abstract Wool Paintings
Since 2014, Alison has been visually dissecting Monique Wittig’s novel The Lesbian Body, which theorizes the split subjectivity women experience in language, an inherently patriarchal structure.