Film
Enlightening Documentaries About Language
These films explore Yiddish, sign language, and Noam Chomsky's linguistic theories.
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News
Why Is the California Attorney General Investigating the San Francisco Art Institute?
Hyperallergic acquired documents raising questions about board member self-interest and tax-exempt bond misuse at the crisis-stricken art college under investigation.
Film
Through Its Characters, Malcolm & Marie Airs a Director’s Grievances with Critics
One of the first movies made in quarantine, Sam Levinson’s latest project with Zendaya exhibits many of the problems facing the film industry.
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CCNY Provides Nationally Recognized Graduate Arts Programs for a Remarkably Modest Tuition
Earn MFA and MA degrees in Studio Art, Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice, Art History, and Art Education at the City College of New York.
Books
Keith Haring’s Lines of Desire
With his recent book, Ricardo Montez complicates notions of collaboration, refusing clean conclusions about Haring’s work and relationships.
Podcast
MoMA’s Leon Black Problem and Cuban Artists Under Siege
Hyperallergic’s news team gets together to go over the highlights of our coverage from the past week.
Art
Required Reading
This week, how to reform political reporting, the most 2021 rejection ever, how gaming informs QAnon, and more.
Film
Two Dramas Plumb the Depths of Women’s Midlife Chaos
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Time and My Little Sister are complicated films about complicated people.
Art
Stephen Pusey’s Remarkable Calligraphic Abstractions
Pusey’s cursive marks sit in that zone where writing becomes drawing and vice versa.
Art
John Mendelsohn’s Paintings of Radiating and Falling Light
The change in hue and density from painting to painting struck me as simultaneously methodical and intuitive.
Art
Ragnar Kjartansson’s Extravagant, Enthralling Bliss
It’s hard to imagine how three minutes of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro repeated for 12 hours can be so riveting.
Books
The Last of the Storytellers
In his fiction, Nikolai Leskov writes as if he is overhearing the stories being told.