Film
The Fraudulent Health Startup that Got an Acclaimed Documentarian to Make Its Ads
How can we reconcile Errol Morris's stated mission of pursuing the truth with him helping to promote Theranos?
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Books
The Art School Roots of Pop Music's Legends
In How Art Made Pop and Pop Became Art, Mike Roberts charts the extraordinary reciprocal relationship between art schools and pop musicians.
Art
The Designer Who Wanted to Liberate People from Gendered Clothing
Looking back on the work and philosophy of Rudi Gernreich, who broke norms and made waves in the 1960s and ’70s.
Art
Play-Testing a New Card Game for Radical World Building
The Afrofuturist Podcast is inviting a game designer to unveil his custom-designed deck of cards, which will prompt and inspire the audience to imagine diverse scenarios.
Art
A Forgotten History of Dutch Women Artists, Remembered
A talk at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will discuss its only painting by an early modern Dutch woman, Margareta Haverman.
Books
Two Books Take on the Vast Ecological and Social Consequences of Climate Change
A Year Without a Winter looks to the past to imagine how people might grapple with the climate upheavals of the future, while A Moving Border explores how rising temperatures have changed the geography of Europe.
Art
Has El Museo del Barrio Betrayed Its Mission?
There is a particular way to think about the conflict around El Museo del Barrio that hasn’t yet been broached by the art press: the shift in its priorities may be generational.
Art
Man Arrested in Kazakhstan for Wielding a Blank Poster in a Public Square
Aslan Sagutdinov’s action was an experiment in crossing the line of public demonstration in the country, despite his lack of an obvious political message.
Art
Transforming Charts and Graphs About Climate Change Into Art
Data visualization artist Alisa Singer's exhibition Environmental Graphiti turns raw climate information into semi-abstract portraits.
Books
How Our Relationship to Books Has Changed Throughout History
Amaranth Borsuk’s The Book traces how the nature of reading changed from an activity practiced by a small number of scholars to a pastime of the masses.
Art
Columbia University MFA Students Gamble on Uncertainty in Thesis Exhibition
The class of 2019 is presenting works that inspire curiosity and fear — palimpsests for a generation still trying to understand itself.
Art
How Latin American Artists Have Used Language to Political and Poetic Effects
The artworks in Words/Matter suggest that language is not simply ethereal and cerebral, but infinitely malleable, corporeal, and tactile.