Art
How a Map Fueled Perceptions of Asians as an Exoticized “Other”
“Peoples of the Pacific” is one of six murals that was displayed at the influential “Pageant of the Pacific” Golden Gate International Exposition.
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The Media Spectacle of Suffering Surrounding India’s COVID-19 Catastrophe
The most gruesome images of COVID-19's wrath in the Western press have originated from the formerly colonized nation and stand in contrast with an imageless COVID-19 crisis in the United States.
News
John Akomfrah, Carrie Mae Weems, and Others Demand Release of Dissident Cuban Artist
“Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara is being detained solely for peacefully expressing his ideas through his art and for his nonviolent defense of human rights,” the open letter reads.
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“We’re Taking Up Space”: Salvadoran Women Artists Shape a New Identity
"And we’re brown, and Central American, and this is what’s up,” artist Liliana Castro explains.
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Why Do AI-generated Portraits Fail at Realism?
Why do these portraits almost always fall short of being lively or authentic?
Comics
When Your Protest Art Gets Coopted
Let's face it, the way your art is received is out of your control.
Film
Western Films About Africa Are Neocolonial Even When They Try Not to Be
Attempting to interrogate its own lens, the documentary Stop Filming Us mixes sharp insights with disappointing shortcomings.
Art
Jasper Johns: Hiding in Plain Sight
Johns has repeatedly used one motif whose source has never been identified.
Art
The Tension in Liat Yossifor’s Paintings
In Yossifor’s work, connections between the imagination and the ordinary world are made not through the pictorial, but through the paint itself.
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Alvin Armstrong's Black Bodies in Motion
Armstrong's paintings explore the role of Black athletes as agents of social change even as white fans push back.
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Required Reading
This week, the lack of Black board members at LA arts organizations, how a stolen Magritte painting may have funded terrorism, the NFT funhouse mirror, the Tulsa Race Massacre, and more.
Art
Standing Inside Yayoi Kusama’s Mind
How much of the effect is the object reflected, or the reflection of the object?