Art
Mira Schor's Critical Annotations of the New York Times
“I felt the need to respond to the namby-pamby, weak reporting that was missing the point or diminishing the reality,” says Schor.
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Announcement
Jersey City Art & Studio Tour Celebrates 30th Anniversary With Four Days of Virtual Programs
New Jersey's largest art tour is an extravaganza of exhibitions, artist talks, demonstrations, and performances, on view online from October 1 to 4.
Art
How Posters Have Targeted Police Violence, From the 1960s to Today
“There’s a story behind every poster,” says Carol Wells, a former medievalist who abandoned her dissertation to devote her life to posters.
News
Ai Weiwei Stages Silent Protest in Support of Wikileaks Founder
Julian Assange is facing 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse.
Film
The Creative Approach One Filmmaker Is Taking to Depict the Hong Kong Protests
Experimental director Simon Liu's shorts seek "a new lexicon of approaches" to the city.
Announcement
Taipei Biennial Announces 2020 Presentations and Public Programs
You and I Don’t Live on the Same Planet, the 12th edition of the biennial, will showcase works by artists from 25 different countries and territories.
News
An Orwell-inspired Billboard Project Considers the State of US Politics
“Ministry of Truth: 1984/2020” will present 20 artists, including Deborah Kass and Mel Chin, on 20 billboards around New York City.
Interview
Meet the NYC Art Community: Lumi Tan on Drawing Strength from “Generative Challenges”
An interview series spotlighting New York’s creative community. Hear directly from artists, curators, and art workers about their current projects and personal quirks.
Books
Making the Case for Debt Abolition
Saddled with student loan debt? Now might be a good time to pick up the Debt Collective’s Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay, which makes a compelling case for “economic disobedience.”
News
Archaeologists in Turkey Uncover 2,400-year-old Dionysus Mask
Dionysus, the god of fertility and wine in Greek mythology, was also known as the “masked” god of theater and a patron of arts.
Art
Required Reading
This week, seeing Caravaggio, the new Princeton Art Museum, Judith Butler on JK Rowling, white supremacy and classical music, the QAnon threat, and more.
Music
A Wall of Hyperpop Sound
Although Brakence is not the only Gen-Z singer-songwriter to play with noise and distortion, few so gleefully enact the violent collision of forms.