Books
Charting a Better World Through Malcolm X’s New York
A new essay collection contextualizes the activist’s life through the physical spaces that nurtured him, like Yuri Kochiyama’s apartment-turned-community center.
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Art
Women Artists Take Over Tate Britain
What’s clear in Now You See Us is that the artists were excluded from the canon because of sociopolitical factors, not artistic merit.
News
Filipino Coffee Shop Redefines “Hole in the Wall”
No doors, no windows, no seating — just drinks being passed through a gaping opening in a concrete wall.
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Three Months After Closing, UArts Files for Bankruptcy
The filing comes on the heels of a failed merger with Temple University, where over 330 students have transferred this semester from the defunct Philadelphia college.
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ArtFields Offers Over $100,000 in Prizes to Southeastern US Artists
Apply for this annual competition and festival that transforms Lake City, South Carolina, into a living art gallery.
Art
A View of Asian Diaspora From Halfway Out
The Appearance at New York’s Americas Society succeeds in showcasing art by Asian artists in Latin America and the Caribbean without essentializing their identities.
Art
Without Content Doesn’t Mean Empty
Lacey Black and Aubrey Levinthal share a talent in their paintings for bringing inward and outward states together until they are one.
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Pia Arke’s Archives of Arctic Colonization
Arke’s art calls forth memories of Greenlandic Inuit life and reinscribes them with the reality of the body against its representation by White colonizers.
Film
The Boys’ Club of Comedy and Its Machinations of Abuse
Implicit throughout Sorry/Not Sorry is the question of what it means for a White cis-het man to be “canceled,” and how claiming cancellation is often a route to reclaiming power.
Art
An Artist Puts the Fossil Fuels Industry on Trial
Paolo Cirio sues the fossil fuel industry on behalf of the environment in his latest book and body of work.
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Amy Sherald Survey to Travel to DC’s National Portrait Gallery Next Year
With over 40 paintings, Sherald’s largest survey to date will mark the first solo show of a Black contemporary artist at the DC institution.
Art
Inside the Bay Area’s Church of Magic Mushrooms
At Oakland’s controversial Church of Ambrosia, a mural that documents the religion’s doctrine is meant to “recreate a psychedelic trip.”