Film

A New Biopic on Gauguin in Tahiti Paints a Skewed Portrait

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti maneuvers around its subject's more questionable actions by pretending they don't exist.

In Brief

Your New York Library Card Will Now Allow You Access to 33 City Museums

A new initiative encourages New Yorkers to use their library cards to get in free to museums across the city.

In Brief

Dalí Foundation Sues Yet Another Dalí Museum, and the Outcome Is Unpredictable

The Dalí Foundation has their sights on the Monterey museum devoted to the Spanish Surrealist and unlike the case in Spain, which the foundation lost, this may be different.

Comics

When I Stopped Taking Art-Related Jobs

A few months ago, I decided to stop taking art-related day jobs and found a warehouse to work at instead.

Art

Haunting Oppressors as a Decolonial Strategy of Resistance

At Alice Gallery, indigenous and Asian Pacific American artists channel their ancestors. Because if there’s one thing ghosts have going for them, it’s staying power.

Interview

Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto Reflects on His Life, Work, and Battle with Cancer

In light of a new documentary on the composer, Sakamoto shares what compels him to write music and the influence of film on his work.

Art

Required Reading

This week, the imaginary skyscraper at the center of a new summer blockbuster, missing Picassos, a designer of the #TrumpBaby blimp, Chinese millennials are calling themselves ‘Spiritually Finnish,’ and more.

Art

Collaging Together Society's Ills

Clipping photos and phrases from army recruitment magazines, Theodore A. Harris began his decades-long critique of the relationship between militarism and capitalism.

Film

Asians in Hollywood

An Asian playing the part of a hero was inconceivable to Hollywood producers.

Art

One Painting Can Go a Long Way

William Tillyer's five-part painting “The Golden Striker” (2018), based on a landscape by John Constable, affirms that the possibilities of light cannot be exhausted.

Art

Monstrous Mutations (Part 1): From Spam Scams to Tweets

With their awkward syntax and frequent misspellings, the president’s tweets aren’t too far from the language of spam.

Art

Yayoi Kusama’s Mesmerizing, Meditative Garden

Kusama’s installation connects with a broad reach of Rockaway's history, as well as the impact of climate change on the area.