Opinion
The Brontë Archive Needs to be Secured for Public Use and Made Accessible
Decolonizing the archive includes mobilizing students like mine to bethe decolonizers.
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News
Artists Request Museum of Chinese in America Remove Their Work From Its Collection
Artists Colin Chin and Nicholas Liem decried MOCA’s acceptance of $35 million in funding from NYC as part of a jail expansion plan.
News
In New Jersey, an Unlikely Monument to the Syrian and Armenian Communities
Bryan Zanisnik's “Silk Monument” features archival images to honor the contributions of Syrian and Armenian migrants who worked in New Jersey silk mills.
Film
The Story of La Veneno, Spain’s Badass Trans Superstar
The HBO Max series Veneno embraces all of the media personality’s colorful life, including the messier parts.
News
A Harvard Museum Will Return Chief Standing Bear's Tomahawk
A joint agreement between the Peabody Museum, the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, and the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, is currently underway to secure the return of the heirloom.
News
Sacklers Temporarily Banned From Slapping Name on Art Institutions
Photographer Nan Goldin, founder of advocacy group PAIN, called the temporary ban "appalling."
Art
A Bright New Grocery Store, Made Entirely of Recycled Plastic
In Robin Frohardt’s immersive installation, the cereal rattles like it’s filled with bottle caps and the water bottles are filled with dirty, cloudy liquid.
Art
“It Makes One Speechless”: 350 Sculptures Invoke First Enslaved Africans
Dana King’s sculptures surround a plinth in San Francisco that formerly held a statue of Francis Scott Key, an anti-abolitionist.
Opinion
An Indigenous Perspective on Frida Kahlo
Kahlo’s aesthetic reflects the vogue of her time: the mythologizing of a homogenized Indigenous past afforded by her proximity to whiteness and wealth.
Performance
A Staggering New Play Creates Space for Black Interiority and Grief
What to Send Up When It Goes Down holds Black people at its center, inviting unique moments of commiseration, anger, and helplessness with no apologies.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the funniest article of the year, online novels, reviewing a new museum building in Houston, hating on Cézanne, defining art, and more.
Art
New Views of the Everyday World
Emily Pettigrew and Aubrey Levinthal are two painters who have much in common, but their differences run deeper and are more telling.