Art
In Jerusalem, a Museum's Ethics Go Astray
The Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem recently unveiled a new exhibition, Finds Gone Astray, to great fanfare, but it has so many ethical and legal violations that it’s hard to know where to begin.
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Latinx Communities in SoCal Share Their Memories in a Collaborative Project
Guadalupe Rosales's project, which began with an Instagram account, presents images of Latinx communities that have been excluded from both popular and artistic media.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Hollywood's caravan problem, death of consensus, cooking ancient Hittite food, seniors and fake news, the High Line's problem, and more.
Books
Geoffrey O'Brien's Poetics of Compression
The poet casts himself as an escapist reader, amassing archives to be condensed as paraphrase.
Books
Dissolving the Boundaries of Asian American Fiction
Janalyn Guo takes Asian American fiction to a new place, where old categories no longer apply.
Art
Eleanor Ray’s Sacred Spaces
There is a deep, warm solitude running through all of Eleanor Ray’s paintings — a sense of being alone and luxuriating in the human silence and changing light.
Art
What Is “Outsider” in Unthinkable Times?
Art’s uplifting power is unmistakably real; today, the works of the most original autodidacts feel more compelling than ever.
Books
An English Translation of Belgian Surrealist Writing
Authors Paul Nougé, Paul Colinet, and Louis Scutenaire exhibited a staunch ethic of underground and elliptical obscurity.
Art
Bill Brandt’s British Reality Show
Brandt’s photographs are dense with the enigmas and silences, riddles and obscurities hidden beneath ordinary British lives.
Art
The Met’s Wrong Turn on Revisionism
When an exhibition is as puzzling as this one, it’s useful to step aside and reflect.
News
New Museum Staff Launches Campaign to Unionize, Urging "Critical Changes"
Staffers want to return to the goals of the museum's founder Marcia Tucker, who hoped it would function as “a collaborative, self-critical, and ‘transparent’ organizational model.” They say the museum has hired a union-busting consulting firm to quell their efforts.
Film
A Chronicler of Soviet and Post-Soviet Life Blurs Fact and Fiction
At the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival, audiences will get to see different sides of Sergei Loznitsa, who examines the past, the present, and where they intersect.