Film
Living With the Ghosts of Migration
In her debut feature Atlantics, Mati Diop renders stories of migration through a feminist lens, offering a meditation on who gets to forge their own path.
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Art
Belated Acclaim for Dorothy Hood's Surreal Abstractions
The exhibition Illuminated Earth asks audiences to consider not only Hood’s dynamic and commanding murals as the thought-provoking pieces they are, but also how artistic legacies are made and remade over time.
News
Week in Review: Jeff Koons's "Bouquet of Tulips," Guerrilla Girls Target MoMA Trustees
Also, a Hyperallergic reporter spent a night with Yayoi Kusama's biggest fans, Marciano Art Foundation employees protest the abrupt closure of the institution, and more.
News
First Keith Haring Mural to Go to Auction Fetches $3.8M at Bonhams
Also, Umberto Boccioni’s "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" (1913/1972) fetched $16.2M, and Ed Ruscha's "Hurting the Word Radio #2" (1964) sold for an unbelievable $52.5M.
Art
Turner Prize Nominees Consider the Injustices Brought About by Borders
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo, and Tai Shani have been shortlisted for the coveted prize.
Performance
A Live Podcast Centers Stories From Bosnia, Palestine, and Mexico
In its best moments, Radio Live made the world feel smaller with rich vignettes from lives we might have little intimate access to.
Art
An Online Project Documents Settler Violence Around the World
Deathscapes features hard data and articles pertaining to Indigenous issues and custodial deaths, and case studies and artwork responding to deaths worldwide.
In Brief
Torkwase Dyson Wins Studio Museum’s $50,000 Wein Prize
"[T]his strengthens my commitment to black spatial justice," Dyson said of the prize, awarded annually to artists of African descent.
News
A Journalist's Citizenship Is Revoked Months After Criticizing the Indian Prime Minister
More than 260 leading writers, journalists, and artists signed a PEN America letter calling on the Indian government to reverse its decision to rescind a citizenship document for Aatish Taseer. Signatories include Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, and Christiane Amanpour.
Film
Twisting the Familiar Into Uncanny Cinematic Forms
Surface Knowledge, the latest Flaherty NYC screening series, presents enthralling experimental documentary shorts which play with ways of seeing and experiencing the world.
Announcement
Washington University’s Campus Transformation Unites Its Graduate Programs in Art and Architecture
Explore the Sam Fox School’s expansive new spaces and see Ai Weiwei: Bare Life during the Prospective Graduate Student Open House on November 18.
Books
A Multi-faceted Look at Francis Bacon’s Psychology
The five essays in Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology call us to grapple with an artist whose life and work were anything but simple.