Performance
The Complicated Staging of Experimental Music in Art Spaces
Veteran musician Onyx Ashanti’s performance prompted larger questions of how personal, cultural works hold value in commodified spaces of leisure, excess and consumption.
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Art
The Art Handler Who Built a Community of Pride Around His Work
Being an art handler means belonging to a patchwork quilt of professional networks, but translating goodwill into solidarity requires significant effort. One day, you might have to entrust a colleague with your life.
Interview
Parsing the Real and Unreal Stories of the Zambian Space Academy
As Nuotama Frances Bodomo's short film Afronauts debuts online, the director discusses de-centering hero narratives and the weaponizing of reality against African stories.
Art
Exploring Sexuality and Myth Through Fiber and Other Types of Sculpture
While Mrinalini Mukherjee radically used textiles to negotiate the deep roots of symbolic Indian art and craft, her visual vocabulary sought independence from traditional roles within her culture.
Film
What You Shouldn't Miss at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival
This year, the world's biggest film festival is bringing a new documentary on Merce Cunningham, an adaptation of the art heist novel The Goldfinch, Agnès Varda's final movie, and so much more.
News
Drag Show for Performers with Down Syndrome Cancelled by Congressional Candidate
Congressional hopeful Peter Meijer rescinded permission for the showcase at a venue he owns, questioning whether or not the performers could provide “informed consent.”
Podcast
The History, Context, and Legacy of an Ancient Maya Plate
Four experts peel back the layers of history hidden in an object that people believe was once used to serve white venison tamales centuries ago.
Books
Finding Beauty in the Mundane Landscapes of Northern Italy
In Luigi Ghirri's Colazione sull’Erba, previously unpublished images from the photographer’s archive present a sparsely populated world of placid tranquility.
Announcement
ArtFields Opens Competition for Artists to Win $145,000 in Various Competition Prizes
The art competition and exhibition for artists based in the Southeastern United States has now opened its artist submission period through November 1, 2019 for the Spring 2020 competition.
Film
A Director Who Brings New Immediacy to "Fly-on-the-Wall" Filmmaking
Kazuhiro Sôda, whose films are now streaming on OVID, is a key contemporary maker of observational cinema — a stripped-down aesthetic that immerses the viewer in the action unfolding onscreen.
Books
Artists Who Have Addressed Sexual Trauma Since the 1970s
In Against Our Will, Vivien Green Fryd makes a convincing case for the need to examine artworks through the lens of sexual trauma, a violent reality that unfortunately spans across gender, ethnicity, race, and time.
Art
The Art Handler Whose Shoulder Shattered at the Loading Dock
The art world conditions its workers to accept subpar safety standards and low salaries in the name of high culture. And because art handlers frequently hop from institution to institution for jobs, issues are typically handed off to the next wave of workers.