Film
"Don't Fuck With the Jews" and Other Moments of Muscular Judaism on Film
Cinema’s thorny depictions of Israeli military action reflects the swift shift in Jewish identity around questions of oppression.
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Film
Catch This Eclectic Anthology of Shorts By Emerging BIPOC Filmmakers
“Distribution is community-building. Without a community, your film has no life.”
News
Why Is a Racist Roosevelt Statue Still Standing in New York City?
A redesign proposal approved today involves adding a bronze outline of the statue’s former pedestal outside the American Museum of Natural History.
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At Michelangelo’s Medici Chapel, Stain-fighting Bacteria Work Miracles
Recently, a team of scientists, conservators, and historians used grime-eating bacteria to tackle the famous sculpture’s century-old stains.
Books
Alison Bechdel's New Book Offers Some Secrets to “Superhuman Strength”
In her supremely good graphic memoir, Bechdel considers her life-in-workouts, offering some surprising nuggets of wisdom on our endless quests for self-transformation.
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Climate Activists Occupy London’s Science Museum to Protest Shell Sponsorship
During the two-day protests, activists explained that they “won’t stand by and let the Science Museum green-wash Shell’s reputation.”
Comics
There's No Pride in Neutrality
In a month of rainbow everything, the eye can sometimes use a break.
Opinion
In Manhattan, a Makeshift Forest Is Haunted by the Ghosts of Imperialism
The location of Maya Lin’s “Ghost Forest” next to the Flatiron building evokes for me, a Filipina American, the legacy of the architect Daniel Burnham.
Books
A Deep, Feminist Dive Into Autotheory
Lauren Fournier considers what it means, in the bell hooks sense, to bring everyday life to theory.
News
Collages Inspired by Langston Hughes Poems Acquired by Morgan Library
The donation of Ashley Bryan’s work marks the Morgan’s first major acquisition of work by a Black children’s author and illustrator.
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Introducing the World’s First Game Show Archive
The Strong National Museum of Play will collect scripts, set designs, props, and more.
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Amazon Stakeholder MacKenzie Scott Distributes $2.7B to 286 Arts & Other Organizations
Beneficiaries include El Museo del Barrio in Manhattan, Laundromat Project in Brooklyn, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.