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Mapping Anti-racist Street Art in Minneapolis and Worldwide
The George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art database includes more than 1,800 images of artworks worldwide.
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Avedon's Father, My Mother, and Processing Death
People say you should talk to the dying to reassure them, but words felt too pedestrian for this profound space of transition.
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Living and Working in the Korean Diaspora
Ahrong Kim is a masterful ceramic sculptor whose touchstone is a young Asian woman’s head.
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The Salacious and Scholarly Poems of Yusef Komunyakaa
The poet suggests his art’s highest calling isn't truth-telling but stirring our empathic imagination.
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Required Reading
This week, the cost of competing on RuPaul's Drag Race, "The Scream" is in solidarity with Strike MoMA, a new biography of Edward Said, and more.
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A Painter of Organized Chaos
Brazilian artist Caetano de Almeida lets colors call to colors, and shapes to shapes, as he works his way across the painting.
Film
The Art of Looking at, and With, Animals
Gunda and Stray reveal how difficult it is not to romanticize the lives of other animals.
Books
A Poet of Isolation and Uncertainty
The poems in Jean Day’s Late Human carry a sense of having arrived at a moment when nothing feels quite right.
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“Insurgent Poetry” Outside of MoMA During Second Week of Protests
“I felt like they wanted to filter what I was saying, but I still wanted to perform the poems, so I figured I’d come and say them here now,” said Jive Poetic.
Books
Cups of Nun Chai Sheds Light on the Kashmir Often Missing From Headlines
Alana Hunt’s emphasis on everyday experiences, shared over a cup of tea, counters the normalization of state violence.
Art
Brenna Youngblood Revises the Language of Abstraction
Youngblood’s paintings would probably make Piet Mondrian yelp.
Film
An Epic-Length Documentary Tackles Ernest Hemingway
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's latest PBS series does a good job of telling the writer's life story, but doesn't probe his thornier aspects.