Art
Massage Workers’ Collective Challenges Racism With Art
Red Canary Song's Flower Spa: Solidarity Outside In pays tribute to past victims of anti-Asian hate and fights against future racism.
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Artists Alter Their Work, Protesting San Francisco Institution's "Silence" on Gaza
Two of the artists in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’s triennial allege that they were asked not to advocate for Palestine in their artwork and supporting text.
Film
Pandora’s Box Unleashes a Universe of Male Oppression
Newly restored, G.W. Pabst’s 1929 film provides a bleak, unsettling account of a showgirl’s ruin at the greedy hands of competing male suitors.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the problem with Goodreads, crackdowns on pro-Palestine activism, reflections from a MoMA stabbing victim, Just Dance makeup, and much more.
Film
Sundance Documentaries Pay Tribute to Female Trailblazers
This year’s Sundance Film Festival offered an array of documentaries spanning cultural vantages and historic eras, about women who span the globe.
Guide
Our Mid-February Picks of New York City Art Shows
Cathleen Clarke’s haunting paintings of childhood, Sharon Louden’s funhouse-like aluminum artworks, Richard Mosse’s new video installation, and more.
Art
Celia Álvarez Muñoz Unbinds the Artist Book
The artist’s work embodies a level of confrontation that makes me contemplate our choices to explore or ignore what’s right in front of our face.
News
Museum Selfie-Takers Are Causing Damage by Backing Into Artworks
Insurers warn of a "growing trend" as some visitors are more focused on stunting for the ’gram than having an ecstatic art experience.
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Artwork About Anti-Asian Discrimination Stolen From NYC Art Nonprofit
Julia Kwon's textile piece was on view at the UrbanGlass Art Center when someone took it off the wall, balled it up, and shoved it in their pocket.
Community
A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in Vancouver, Santa Fe, California, and Pennsylvania.
News
New York Could Make Graffiti a “Hate Crime”
Governor Kathy Hochul voiced her support for a bill that would apply the designation to several offenses including graffiti.
News
Could This Be Humanity’s Earliest Recorded Kiss?
A Danish scientist-couple has pushed back the date of the earliest smooch by more than a millennium.