In Brief
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Medals Will Be Made from Recycled Gadgets
The Medal Project will mine gold, silver, and bronze from nearly 50,000 tons of donated e-waste.
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After a Writer Asked for Equal Pay, the New York Film Academy Let Her Go
Krista Knight agreed to write a movie musical short for the prestigious academy pro bono. After discovering her colleagues were being paid, she requested the same.
Film
A New Doc on the Midterm Elections Captures the Struggle of Women Candidates
A new documentary, premiered at Sundance, shows how intuition and tireless image and footage capture makes a film.
Art
A Brooklyn Fair Showcases Zines by Indigenous Artists
A small zine fair at Clinton Hill-based art space Recess highlights the importance of Indigenous creators and their work.
Books
A Potent, Personal Comic on Women’s Work and Anger
In This Woman's Work, Julie Delporte reflects on the limitations of being a woman.
Guide
Your Concise Guide to Los Angeles Frieze Week 2019
This week, Frieze makes its much-anticipated Los Angeles debut and will be joined by a selection of other fairs, ranging from the informal and local to the international and celebrity-laden.
Interview
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders on His Toni Morrison Doc and What Bette Davis Taught Him About Photography
The first full-length documentary on the Nobel Prize-winning author offers a rich take by one of the only people she trusts to take her photograph.
Art
Why a Polish Billionaire Built a Museum in the Swiss Alps
Polish investor, art collector, and philanthropist Grażyna Kulczyk says the goal of Museum Susch is to platform “new voices and positions that are often left outside the canon of male-dominated art history.”
Art
A Show on Minimalism Lacks Its Self-Assured Presence
Strangely, of the three works visitors are most likely to bump into first after entering the National Gallery Singapore to view its show on Minimalism, none of them feel explicitly Minimalist.
Art
The Clandestine Cultural Knowledge of Ancient Graffiti
Today we are used to thinking of graffiti as subversive or illegal, but ancient people didn’t necessarily see graffiti in this way at all.
In Brief
Laurie Anderson Wins Her First Grammy
Anderson took home the award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for Landfall, her collaboration with Kronos Quartet inspired by Hurricane Sandy.
Books
Nerd Out with This Encyclopedia of Architects’ Scale Figures
The encyclopedia, which considers architecture's relationship to people, includes some 1,000 images of figures produced by more than 250 architects.