Books
Family Love and Politics in the Age of Trump and Beyond
How do you keep close to loved ones who are on the other side of the political spectrum?
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Opinion
When “Art” Dies, the Community Will Thrive
Perhaps museums can’t be museums until we in the community tell them they are that.
Comics
The Shaggy Appeal of Kurt Vonnegut
A new documentary about Vonnegut prompts memories of first encountering the author.
News
Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History and Culture Goes Digital
Launched yesterday, the Searchable Museum brings the institution's celebrated installations to the screen.
News
An Archive Traces the History of Anti-Semitism Across Europe
The archive includes some 15,000 objects and ephemera, ranging from anti-Semitic postcards and playing cards to concentration camp currency and food ration cards.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the only LGBTQ+ historic district in the US, three Asian-American Modernists, Ai Weiwei on reclaiming art from capitalism, Thanksgiving and genocide, and more.
Art
The Frenzied Cacophony of Adam Pendleton
For the artist, history doesn’t simply settle for repeating itself but jolts forward, stammers, pauses for breath, weaves around itself.
Art
The Double Consciousness of Being a Chinese Woman Living in America
Fei Li knows that achieving rapprochement between the world views and customs of China and America is unlikely.
Art
What Constable Sacrificed for His Artistic Success
Sentimentality would creep into the artist's late evocations of remembered childhood scenes, as would idealization.
Art
Jason Gubbiotti's Sculptural Paintings Manifest the Claustrophobia of Lockdown
The work in The Travel Section points to the isolation of a lockdown, but it’s not without moments of release.
Art
At Queens’s Noguchi Museum, Banners by Asian Artists Address Racism
Chemin Hsiao, winner of the museum's Open Call for Artist Banners, and runners-up Woomin Kim and Mo Kong discuss their designs with Hyperallergic.
Opinion
An Archconservative Magazine Discovers Afrofuturism at the Met and Is Not Pleased
Conservative critic Gilbert T. Sewall wants to make the Met great again.