Art
Yikui (Coy) Gu’s Tour of the US
There is nothing subtle about Gu’s work: it is in your face because the racism he encounters is always there.
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Art
Required Reading
This week, a drawing by Leonardo goes to auction, the art Napoleon stole, sites of POC history in the US, defining misogynoir, the tyranny of time, and more.
Art
Sanya Kantarovsky’s Truth-Bearing Fantasy
Kantarovsky’s paintings unveil reality as a fabrication whose true form is instability and transience.
Art
A Flawed Retrospective for a Surrealist Rebel
There is so much information handed to us in the exhibition, Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy that we risk forgetting what we might think if we came fresh to a painting.
Art
Alex Caldiero, Outsider and Naysayer
Caldiero’s language experiments are rooted in the land and anchored in his body, at the junction between his brain and his larynx.
Books
Art, Branding, and the Illusion of Authenticity
Emily Segal's novel provides a wickedly sharp depiction of the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of New York's creative community.
Film
A '70s PSA Depicts Life for the Elderly as a Funhouse Nightmare
The Lutheran Society had no idea what they were in for when they had zombie movie icon George Romero direct The Amusement Park, long lost but now restored.
Art
Photographer Captures the Unexpected, Everyday Choreography of NYC’s Streets
Elizabeth Bick’s images inject a sense of theatricality and intention into the randomness of everyday life.
Opinion
We Don’t Need More Temporary Exhibitions of All Women Artists
This curatorial approach is self-defeating in furthering a feminist art historical discourse.
News
Over 6,000 Photographs of Old Hollywood Acquired by the Hood Museum
John Kobal collected images that span the history of Hollywood, including film production stills, portraits, and publicity shots.
Film
A First-Person Interrogation of a Family's Guilt-Ridden Past
A combination video essay and road movie, Angelo Madsen Minax's documentary North By Current understands life upheavals as rites of passage.
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“This Is Apartheid”: Kara Walker, Nan Goldin, and 16,000+ Artists Voice Solidarity With Palestine
The letter was initially signed by 300 leading Palestinian artists, writers, and filmmakers, including Emily Jacir, Mona Hatoum, and Elia Suleiman.