Art
Walk With Me: A Performance Artist Adapts to the Pandemic
For two weeks last fall, performance artist Alisa Oleva walked with 33 different women in Istanbul; sometimes for 30 minutes, sometimes for three hours, but always from 1500 miles away.
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Imagining the Future Amid Alejandro Cardenas’s Profound, Brooding Canvases
In ALEXANDRIA, bright stripes and zigzags pop against sprawling environments, telegraphing both impressive depth and intense seclusion.
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Ain’t I a Womxn?: What Glitch Feminism Can Teach Us Now
Curator and author Legacy Russell reassesses gender reveal party wildfires, and the gendered “atmospheres” left in their techno-ecological wake.
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Painting a Portrait Is “Like Falling in Love,” Says Jiab Prachakul
Prachakul paints friends and acquaintances who, like the artist, are part of the Asian diaspora.
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Artist Edmund de Waal Donates 2,000 Books to Iraqi Library Decimated by ISIS
The artist donated his “library of exile” to the Mosul University Library, once one of the largest libraries in West Asia, housing over a million books and rare historical materials before it was destroyed.
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MCA Chicago Lays Off 41 Workers, Prompting Backlash
Citing a revenue drop due to the pandemic, the museum has cut 11% of its workforce.
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MoMA Chairman Leon Black Steps Down as CEO of Equity Firm Following Review of Jeffrey Epstein Ties
A company report determined that Epstein had provided “legitimate advice” to Black related to the billionaire’s vast art collection.
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Marsha Pels’s Sculptures Offer Little Solace
Pels’s work evokes a blinking unease, posing questions about the nature of power in the arenas of sex, war, and religion.
Film
A Unique Source for Experimental Asian American Films Returns
After a successful run in 2020, the online repertory series My Sight is Lined with Visions returns for a full year of rotating programs.
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Meet YInMn, the First New Blue Pigment in Two Centuries
The vibrant pigment, created accidentally in 2009 by chemists at Oregon State University, is now commercially available.
Art
Karen Carson, an Early California Minimalist, Has a New, Kaleidoscopic Vision
Carson’s geometric paintings, inspired by the land of big sky, mimic rolling hills and valleys.
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Gen Zers in Russia Are Using TikTok as a Catchy Tool of Political Resistance
In Russia, high schoolers have massively taken to TikTok to express their support of Alexei Navalny, the resolute opposition leader most feared by the Kremlin.