Art
Required Reading
This week, illicit antiquity trading, Harlem Renaissance patrons and whiteness, a new biography of Joni Mitchell, Diane Keaton season, and much more.
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Books
Thomas Cole’s Landscape Painting Through an Indigenous Lens
Unlike European Christian notions regarding human dominion over all of creation, the Haudenosaunee belief is that our relationship with the earth is one of responsibilities.
Guide
15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer
The art scene has something for everyone this season, from Kwame Brathwaite and mural collective East Los Streetscapers to Simone Leigh and Zapotec textile art.
Film
The 2024 Cannes Film Festival Immersed Audiences in Art
A selection of films on artists and immersive VR experiences all reinforced the ability of art to emerge from and resonate with the viewer on deeply felt levels.
Community
A View From the Easel
“Sometimes, I will finish discarded pieces months or even years later.”
News
What Happened to the Art in the Columbia Student Encampments?
Student artists are asking why the school took their protest art into its archives and demanding more transparency moving forward.
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Islands of Kinship Culminates With a Book Launch and Symposium on Inclusivity in Language
The two-year project connected six visual art institutions across Europe in an innovative collaboration model.
Interview
Su Friedrich’s Life in Moving Images
“I always had the feeling that there isn't just a single thing to do,” the artist told Hyperallergic. “I enjoy mixing text and images, real life and invented scenarios.”
Interview
Power Traces the History of Policing in the US
Following the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, filmmaker Yance Ford was struck by the question: “What, exactly, do the police exist to do?”
Books
Celebrating James Baldwin's Radical Beauty
In God Made My Face, artists and critics reflect on seeing themselves through the late metamorphic writer’s work.
Art
Find Your Dream Zine at This Sprawling Manhattan Fair
Hosted by 8-Ball Community and Printed Matter, the East Village Zine Fair will take over a block stretching from First to Second Avenues this weekend.
News
Homes of Brooklyn Museum Leaders Tagged With Protest Graffiti
The words “white supremacist Zionist” were spray-painted on Director Anne Pasternak’s residence two weeks after a heavily policed pro-Palestine protest at the museum.