Art
Trevon Latin Finds Joy in Melancholy
Latin’s colorful artworks touch on aspects of queer and Black experience, not in broad strokes, but in exceedingly specific ones.
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Art
Imagining Our Climate Future
Speculations about climate change by an array of artists feel eerily probable, if not already real.
Books
Humankind’s History of Betraying Animals
Thalia Field's poems collage scientific, historical, and philosophical sources to explore speciesism.
Art
Facing Catastrophe With Calm
Joshua Marsh has fashioned a world where a sweet, wise humor in the face of mortality and inescapable change prevails.
News
In Ethiopia’s Tigray Region, Rebels Take Control of UNESCO Heritage Site
The recent seizure follows nine months of violent civil war in Ethiopia.
Art
The Triumphant Tangles of Christina Quarles’s Canvases
In Quarles’s paintings, boundaries dissolve as the artist grinds up the fixed binaries of Black/white or male/female.
Film
Looking Back at the Misbegotten Woodstock ’99 Music Festival
The HBO documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage views the event not just as one fiasco, but as an allegory for the Y2K era.
Art
The Sensual, Surreal, and Queer PaJaMa Collective
The collective staged erotically charged photographs of themselves and those in their artistic circles.
Opinion
How BIPOC Artists Fight Canada's Biased Art Scene
The Canada Council for the Arts will disburse $116.5 million, and groups that are “Indigenous, culturally diverse, deaf, disabled, or official language minorities” will share only 4% of these funds.
News
Move Over, Pollock: Research Confirms Neanderthals Made Splatter Paintings
Pigment found on rocks in a Spanish cave was applied by humans 60,000 years ago using splattering and blowing techniques.
News
Acropolis Closes as Wildfires Rage Across Southern Europe
Other archaeological sites have also closed while authorities battle with dozens of conflagrations around Athens.
News
Week in Review: Looted Artifacts Returned to Iraq; NYC Mandates Vaccines at Performances
Week in Review is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. Subscribe to receive these posts as a weekly newsletter. New York City You will soon need your vaccine card to accessNew York City's indoor performance venues as well as dining and fitness