Film
When Class Conflict Met Queer Romance
Ammonite tells a 19th-century love story that prompts less a tingle through the loins than a chill down the spine.
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Music
Pop Noise Overkill
Big and loud music from Backxwash, Food House, Toriena, and Blackpink.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the racialization of painters' palettes, destruction concerns in Artsakh, why fascists like Dune, how Facebook didn't ban Holocaust deniers, elite panic, and more.
Podcast
John Yau, Jillian Steinhauer, and Others at Hyperallergic's First-ever Public Reading
This classic recording brings to life some of our favorite articles from 2015, and showcases the poetry of a few longtime Hyperallergic editors.
Art
“Hahahahahaha” Can Be No Laughing Matter on TikTok
How one South Asian popular song, which was recently popularized on TikTok, is raising questions about cultural appropriation online.
Art
On Twitter, Frogs Were Mostly Nazis, On TikTok, They’re Often Queer
How frogs, more recently seen as a symbol of hate on Twitter, are being queered by TikTok users.
Art
One Flew Over the TikTok Nest
A look at how some healthcare professionals on TikTok are using the platform to cultivate a healthy conversation about mental illness.
Opinion
Seeing the Bigger Picture on Public Memorials to Women
Recent works, including monuments to Mary Wollstonecraft and Medusa, demonstrate that it’s not that women have a problem with public monuments; it’s that public monuments have a problem with us.
Art
The Chilling, Little Known History of Nuclear Experiments in the US Southwest
In From Dust Cara Despain lays bare that dark chapter of US history when the government tested nuclear weapons on its own soil.
Community
A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine
This week, artists reflect on quarantining from their studios in Brooklyn, Florence, MA, Los Angeles, and Nassau, NY.
Film
Hillbilly Elegy Tries, and Fails, to Understand the Working Class
Based on the memoir by J.D. Vance, this film adaptation is the latest big piece of Hollywood poverty porn disguised as Oscar bait.
Film
A Queer Twist on the Incredibly Heteronormative Holiday Romcom Genre
In Happiest Season, Kristen Stewart stars in a Clea Duvall-directed story about a woman head over heels with another who won’t come out.