News
Why Is Beijing's Arts Community Struggling to Stay Afloat?
Galleries are exiting the market and studios are being demolished in what the government is referring to as their actions against organized crime.
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Film
A Small Town Reenacts the 1917 Deportation of a Thousand Striking Miners
The documentary Bisbee '17 deconstructs how we perform our idea of the past as it resurrects an unsavory episode in labor history.
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Books
The Curiosity Corporation that Defined Colonialism
Rich with meticulous archival detail and more than 200 years of the East India Company's history, Company Curiosities provides little in the way of argument or critical intervention, leaving the reader to interpret its vast expanse of material.
Art
The Influence of Painting on Balenciaga's Visual Universe
An exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum demonstrates that though it would seem impossible to replicate El Greco’s gleaming fabrics in real life, Balenciaga manages to do just that.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the white gaze and photos from the US/Mexico border, the market for a branded artist, a weird micro-trend, Jonas Wood's straight white dude problem, Washington state's prison abolitionist movement, and more.
Film
Reveling in the Languor of David Hockney’s World
A Bigger Splash, Jack Hazan's 1974 documentary on Hockney's circle, basks in the full-frontal, day-to-day details of their tightly interwoven emotional lives.
Art
Luc Tuymans’s Moral Distance
Tuymans is a figurative painter who doubts whether visual representations can ever be truthful.
Art
Stanley Whitney’s Machine for Painting
Whitney’s paintings at this point seem to embody the transitory.
Art
Rachelle Dang's Meditation on Past and Present
If white often symbolizes innocence and purity, Dang's pervasive use of the color gives her tropical tableau a ghostly, washed-out feel.
Art
Leonardo and His Double
Leonardo da Vinci would have found a deep connection to the ostracism of Saint Jerome at the hands of the envious and the hypocritical.
Art
Robert Rauschenberg and the Men on the Moon
Rauschenberg was among the artists invited by NASA to attend the launch of Apollo 11, the spaceflight that landed two Americans on the moon 50 years ago this month.