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Week in Review: UK Activists Occupy Science Museum; Theodore Roosevelt Controversy Resurfaces
Also, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott will distribute $2.7 billion to 286 organizations, and more.
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Film
Ludi Captures How US Assimilationism Exhausts and Exploits
Set in Miami’s Little Haiti, Edson Jean’s feature debut follows a nurse on the verge of a breakdown.
Art
Williamsburg Gets Its First Hasidic Art Gallery
The lively opening of Shtetl Gallery signals shifting perceptions around Hasidic art in the local community.
Art
Artist Betty Tompkins Overlays Women’s Bodies With #MeToo Testimonies
Tompkins unflinchingly looks at how female bodies are displayed, disciplined, and offered up to men.
Art
Exploring Fraught Histories at the Liverpool Biennial
Particularly well incorporated into the city’s everyday, the biennial’s latest edition attempts to grapple with Liverpool’s colonial past.
Books
“Typographic Eye Candy”: 50 Standout Book Covers From 2020
This week, the American Institute of Graphic Arts announced the winners from its 2020 book cover competition.
News
From a Galaxy Far, Far Away, a Star Wars Jet Goes to Smithsonian
Fans of the cult series will be able to view the “X-wing Starfighter” at the DC institution.
Opinion
How the Venice Biennale Makes Life Harder for Working Venetians
Generations of Italians are stuck in precariato (‘precarious work’), unable to work year-round, start a family, or buy or even just rent a flat of their own.
Film
In Tragic Jungle, the "Heart of Darkness" Fights Back
Yulene Olaizola's film tries to subvert the tropes of colonialist art about the Central American wilderness.
News
For Just $1, You Can Live in a Gaudí Masterpiece for a Night
Casa Vicens was Gaudí's first-ever commission in Barcelona and one of the first buildings of the Art Nouveau movement.
Art
A Kurdish Artist’s Creative Resistance From Behind Bars
“Politics, war and oppression are a part of my life,” Fatoş İrwen explained of her current solo show, Exceptional Times.
Art
A Playful, but Critical, Tribute to Los Angeles
Umar Rashid creates an alternate timeline that shows Black and Indigenous people defeating colonizers.