Film
The 500-Year-Old Ghost of a Conquistador Wanders Mexico
The documentary/fiction hybrid film 499 uses a fictional character to speak to real-life contemporary colonized people.
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Opinion
Facebook’s Censoring of Women's Bodies is Nipocrisy
As long as Facebook and Instagram maintain a policy that female nipples are offensive and male nipples are not, they get to decide whose bodies count as valid for public viewing and whose bodies don't.
News
Drake's Next Album Cover Is Comically Bad — and Designed by Damien Hirst
The cover is a deluded, self-referential tribute to Hirst's career.
News
Key Buildings for Chicanx Artists Added to LA Historic-Cultural Monument List
The Centro de Arte Publico and Mechicano Art Center were recognized for their contributions to the longstanding tradition of Chicanx cultural heritage in LA.
Art
Computer-Generated New Yorker Cartoons Are Delightfully Weird
The palimpsestic drawings and irreverent captions dissolve into senselessness, upending the ubiquitous cartoon medium.
Opinion
It’s Time to Commission a Memorial to Slavery at McGill University
The memorial should provoke questions such as: What are the implications for such a memorial for the descendants of the Black and Indigenous enslaved?
Film
Confronting Doubt with the Power of Shakespeare
Argentine director Matías Piñeiro’s Isabella is the latest in a string of offbeat films about the nature of performance and creativity.
News
Black Daguerreotypists Highlighted at the Smithsonian
The American Art Museum purchased a collection of early American photographs spanning the 1840s to the mid-1920s.
News
A COVID-19 Mask That Kills the Virus? Scientists Say Yes
The technology is named "SakCu" — a combination of "Sak," the word for silver in Mayan, and "Cu," the chemical symbol for copper.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the world's biggest Pokémon card collector, how a photojournalist was killed in Afghanistan, Dan Hancox and Kasia Tomasiewicz, writing for Coda, discuss how children's toys may be normalizing surveillance, coopting "woke," and much more.
Art
Revisiting the Joy of Pattern and Decoration
The Pattern and Decoration movement was a hard-charging assault on traditions both ancient and oppressive. It was also an explosion of joyously liberated impulses.
Art
The Art of Not Communicating
Caroline Kent’s installation practically vibrates with the energy of near-connection and near-signification.