Art
Required Reading
This week, BIG's sustainable lilypad city, Germany's new dog laws, the Ghent Altarpiece upclose, white museum docents, Vincente Fox's Trump troll, and more.
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Music
Pop Blasts Away
Head-banging new music by 100 Gecs, Amnesia Scanner, Haru Nemuri, and Machine Girl.
Books
Erudite Poems That Playfully Rework the Conventions of Life Writing
German writer Heinrich von Kleist serves as a starting point for Matthew Fink's exploration of the Western canon's gossipy underside.
Art
Anne Neely's Ethical Abstractions
Neely has created paintings that respond to some of the major issues of the day: climate change, environmental water loss, and immigration.
Art
Léon Spilliaert's Nocturnal Visions
Spilliaert saw his hometown of Ostend, Belgium, as a kind of liminal space between the outside and his interior world.
Art
A Powerful Debut
As a young Asian American painter, Susan Chen knows what she is up against and is consciously pushing back.
News
Susan B. Anthony Museum Rejects Trump's Presidential Pardon
An attempt to appeal to women by President Trump may have backfired.
Art
An Artist’s Vision Centers Indigenous Narratives and Spaces
In Red Exit, Andrea Carlson’s motifs celebrate the spaces Native people create for themselves.
Film
Inventor Nikola Tesla Gets a Suitably Unusual Biopic
Tesla is less “the story of Tesla” and more a dialogue with the audience about the infamously eccentric figure.
News
See Newly Digitized, Public Archives on Recitalist Marian Anderson’s Life and Work
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries launched its publicly accessible archives of renowned contralto and Civil Rights activist Marian Anderson.
Interview
Hank Willis Thomas on Black Survival Guide and Creative Civic Action
Thomas and fellow artist Ebony Brown talk about interdependence and How to Live Through a Police Riot, an archival handbook that inspired his 2018 series.
Community
A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine
This week, artists reflect on quarantining from their studios in Connecticut, New Jersey, Georgia, and New York.