Film
The Bizarre World of US Gun Violence, Seen Through Documentaries
Watching from Chile, these films feel not like documents of the US’s present but a premonition of the future here.
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Opinion
On Nostalgia and Colonialism on the New Oregon Trail
What does it mean to reform a game based on a violent history of land theft and appropriation?
Art
Rehana Zaman Invites Us into Intimate, Decolonial Narratives
The London-based moving image artist considers the costs of youthful assimilation.
Books
Seeing Through the Eye of Others
Aminder Dhaliwal’s new graphic novel, “Cyclopedia Exotica,” challenges stereotypes by delivering broader messages on the complexity of race, gender, and identity.
Art
An Artist Standing Outside an Either/Or World
L. Brandon Krall seems simultaneously to embrace systems and flights of imagination.
Art
What Abstraction Can Face Up To
Ha Chong-Hyun has survived the many catastrophes that have befallen Korea during his lifetime, and his work is inextricable from his life.
Art
Required Reading
This week, new photos from Jupiter, memes as journalism, dating the Cerne Abbas Giant, art cookbooks, the importance of the Attica prison rebellion, and more.
Art
The Darker Side of Keith Haring
The exhibition “Keith Haring: Radiant Gambit” presents a more complicated — and certainly more interesting — take on an artist best known for his zippy visuals.
Art
Rachel Whiteread’s White Blight
Whiteread has made two full-size structures over the course of the lockdown that suggest a candid act of emotional unburdening.
Books
Poetry That Targets Compliance as Complicity
Andrew Levy's poems explore contemporary life with globe-spanning sweep and intensive probing.
News
NYC Artists Project Messages of Solidarity With Palestine
Against the view of Manhattan’s skyline, messages read: “Defend Palestine”; “Defend Sheikh Jarrah”; “All Eyes on Palestine”; and more.
News
Major Delhi Art Institutions to Be Razed as Part of Controversial Redevelopment Plan
Scholars and artists including Anish Kapoor and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak are calling for an “immediate halt” of the $2 billion project as COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across India.