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Are Black Cats Modernity’s Icons?
How Manet transformed the misunderstood feline into an emblem of independent thinking; plus, Gay Halloween memes galore!
Art Movements
Documenta 16 Names Four New Curatorial Team Members
The embattled German exhibition's latest appointments, artist Catherine Opie wins a Yale University award, and Dallas Art Fair partners with … a university?
Feature
How Édouard Manet's Black Cat Became a Symbol of Modernity
Long associated with witchcraft and bad luck, the black feline became an emblem of artistic rebellion and urban life in 19th-century Paris.
Feature
This Year's Gay Halloween Celebrates Women's Rights and Wrongs
From the Kelly Clarkson's mechanical bird fiasco to Carrie Bradshaw's Dior newsprint dress, Gay Halloween speaks to the staying power of women's iconic media moments.
Feature
Why Do Horror Films Have Such a Hold on Our Imaginations?
An exhibition at the Academy Museum explores the transgressive power of scary movies, channeling our deepest fears about life, death, and the unknown.
Film
Hell Takes the Form of State Repression in 1971’s “The Devils”
Ken Russell’s film designed by Derek Jarman, newly released in a 4K restoration, mirrors the horrors unfolding outside our windows.
Pocket Review
Before AI There Was the Octopus
Helsinki-based artist Tuomas A. Laitinen gives us an intelligence with no central neurology, no fixed shape, and no interest in being legible to us.
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Daily Newsletter
An Epstein Survivor’s Message for MoMA
Dani Bensky explains why the museum must drop Leon Black from its board. Also: The Vatican is serious about protecting artists from AI.
Opinion
I’m an Epstein Survivor. MoMA Must Drop Leon Black.
Institutions must reckon with the possibility that their prestige can be used to legitimize people whose conduct warrants serious investigations.
News
Vatican Exhibition Series Centers "Fundamentally Human" Art Over AI
A triennale across seven cities expands on Pope Leo XIV's message that artificial intelligence models “lack the affective, relational and spiritual perspective” necessary to create art.