Art
Richard Mosse's Photos Exoticize Disaster
Employing drones, Mosse creates psychedelic aerial maps of ecological degradation.
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Books
A Female Vision of Sci-Fi
Izumi Suzuki introduced a different vision of femininity, one that departed from the stereotypes so abundant in the work of male writers.
Comics
Seen and Overheard at Frieze New York
“Oh no, she’s good. She’s a pandemic baby.”
Art
Meh, Frieze Is Back
Mixed feelings aside, we can all agree on one thing: it was better than an online viewing room.
Film
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist Gets the Netflix Treatment
The miniseries This Is a Robbery is at its best when working through the stranger details of the infamous, still-unsolved crime.
Film
Faya Dayi Tells Stories of Land Kinship in Drought-Ridden Ethiopia
Screening at New Directors/New Films, Jessica Beshir’s film floats in the space between documentary and poetry.
Books
A Data Artist’s Guide to Putting People (and Privacy) First
With Living In Data, Jer Thorp demonstrates the importance of enabling people to participate in the process of creating and telling the stories behind data.
Comics
Can’t Wait for the Post-mask Art Openings
How else can I scan the room for someone I actually want to talk to?
News
A Roman Emperor and His Finger, Separated for 500 Years, Finally Reunited
The Louvre Museum has returned an index finger to a massive bronze of Emperor Constantine after it was long mistaken for a toe.
News
227-Year-Old Prototype for First US Dollar Sold at Auction
The experimental dollar from 1794, featuring Lady Liberty with flowing hair, laid the groundwork for the first silver dollars, coined the same year.
News
Week in Review: Activists and MoMA Clash Over Protest; National Gallery Lays Off Retail Staff
Also, Indigenous petroglyphs in Utah have been defaced with a white supremacist slogan, and more.
Opinion
We Should Think Differently About the Preservation of Racist Monuments
Today more museum professionals are considering what it could mean to exhibit defaced monuments.