Art

How Social Media is Allowing for Illegal Antiquities Trafficking

The Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research (ATHAR) Project has published a critical report on West Asian antiquities trafficking taking place more or less out in the open on Facebook.

Books

A Modernist Sculptor Finds a Language in the Canadian Landscape

Murray’s sculpture develops a unique perspective, despite synthesizing many aspects and themes of contemporary sculpture emerging from New York in the 1960s and 1970s.

Performance

A Strange Loop Stages the Double Consciousness of Being Black and Queer

Michael R. Jackson’s subversive sermon on the conflicted heart of a Black, queer man writing a musical about a Black, queer man details an artist's fight against society's expectations of what he should be.

Film

Reconsidering The Jinx as Robert Durst Goes on Trial

Robert Durst will soon be tried for murder in part because of HBO's true crime series about him. What does it mean if the fact that the documentary was misleadingly edited impacts the verdict?

Film

Lis Rhodes's Films Are an Active Outcry Against Exploitation

Rhodes’s diverse collection of feminist films show an obsessive concentration on language as a system of signs that reveals but also reinforces the oppressive structures faced by the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Art

Architect Philip Freelon's Legacy of Community Engagement and Inclusion

The architect, whose design influence is found among major museums specifically dedicated to Black culture in the United States, passed away at the age of 66.

In Brief

Disgraced Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's Art World Connections

Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein returned to court this week on sex-trafficking charges. Members of the art world are among Epstein's defenders and victims.

Announcement

The Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition Say Ever Moves Opens July 20

Join the college to celebrate the culminating work of the MFA Class of 2020. On view until July 28 at the Bard College Exhibition Center/UBS Gallery in Red Hook.

Art

Performances and Interventions Inspired by Medieval European Astronomy and Astrology

A group of artists will stage performances and interventions at the Getty Center inspired by its exhibition, The Wondrous Cosmos in Medieval Manuscripts.

In Brief

Inside an Ai Weiwei-Designed Home in Upstate New York, Selling for $5.25 Million

A glimpse inside the Tsai Residence in Ancram, New York, the only private residence designed by the artist in the United States.

Art

Experience the “Sonic Medicine" Treating a Santa Monica Community

Two Postcommodity members, along with composer Guillermo Galindo, are partnering with members of a fast-gentrifying Santa Monica neighborhood to produce a sound-based artwork of contested histories.

Art

How Psychiatry and Hallucinogenic Drugs Meet in Painting

The Bethlem Museum of the Mind's latest exhibition Brilliant Visions: Mescaline, Art and Psychiatry plunges into the murky world of psychosis and psychedelics.