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This week, recreating historical sites with GIFs, a really awful city seal, art history's future, Seth Rogen on Israel, the looming renters' crisis, some tea about Bill Maher, and more.
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Books
Climbing a Symbolic Mountain With a Surrealist Writer
Long out of print, Mount Analogue, René Daumal's cult classic, offers a tale of renunciation and self-acceptance.
Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“Sometimes we’re so overwhelmed in the present that it seems impossible to think a future beyond it – but the work of imagination must always continue.”
Art
The Art World We Have Lost
Loren Munk’s “SOHO Map” offers a visual record of a densely peopled art world.
Art
Slavery and the Dehumanization of Modern Life
Through texts and objects, Cameron Rowland illuminates the connection between slavery and the commercial structures that define the global economy today.
Art
A Triennale In Tune With Our Pandemic-Affected Moment
In the face of climate change, economic and political convulsions, and the coronavirus pandemic, it is our modes of living and of occupying our planet that we must urgently modify.
Performance
The Original Forger of Magic
No one was as successful at impersonation and forgery as William Ellsworth Robinson, nor has anyone failed as spectacularly.
News
After Layoffs, Tenement Museum Union Files Complaint With National Labor Relations Board
A complaint by UAW Local 2110 on behalf of the staffers accuses the museum of laying off workers without notice or severance and withholding information from the union.
News
#SayHerName: An Illustration of Breonna Taylor Will Cover September’s Oprah Magazine
The portrait will be the first cover of the magazine to not feature Oprah Winfrey in its 20 year history.
Art
The Charm and Conviction of a Christo and Jeanne-Claude Exhibition
The show at the Pompidou Center demonstrates that the artists’ reputation as “ephemeral architects” or “temporary monument” makers is incomplete, if not altogether incorrect.
News
American Museum of Natural History Will Reverse Pay-what-you-wish Admission Upon Reopening
Pending approval from the state and city, the museum plans to reopen September 9 after being closed for the COVID-19 pandemic.
News
Getty Responds to Open Letter Accusing Museum of Racial Bias and Insensitivity
On July 21, the Getty Board of Trustees posted a response to a July 15 open letter written by hundreds of current and former Getty employees as well as museum visitors. In its response, the institution touts some of the steps it has taken towards diversity, while also acknowledging "that Getty has m