Film
Maybe Some Artists Don't Make It For a Reason
Make Me Famous, a new documentary about East Village artist Edward Brezinski, does little to prove that its subject should have risen to the top.
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Art
Breaking With Monuments as Institutional Selfies
Thomas J Price’s bronze statues of Black individuals look like people we might know or see out in public, rather than generals and political leaders.
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Ruins of Ancient Roman Theater Discovered During Dig for New Hotel
The ruins of Roman Emperor Nero’s theater, long believed lost, were found under the gardens of the Palazzo della Rovere just outside of Vatican City.
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Dancer O'Shae Sibley Killed After Vogueing at Brooklyn Gas Station
"They murdered him because he was gay," said Sibley’s friend Otis Pena, who described the attacker launching homophobic slurs.
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LGBTQ+ Art and Historical Ephemera Up for Auction at Swann
Art and photographs, publications from the 19th and 20th centuries, manuscripts, posters, and more are set to cross the auction block on August 17.
Art
In Governors Island, Seven Video Artists Imagine Radical Futures
The group exhibition AntiVenom honors the potential of art and activism to transform harmful realities.
Art
Can AI Help Find the Children of Argentina’s Desaparecidos?
AI images depict what the children born in captivity to victims of the dictatorship might look like today, but some have concerns about the tool's limitations.
Art
The Rampant Erasure of Muslim Heritage in India
The charred walls of the Azizia library, torched during an extremist riot along with its 4,500 books, are a reminder of the violence of the Hindu nationalist mob.
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Activists Protest at Rubin Museum-Backed Exhibition in Nepal
The protesters said the Rubin Museum is using the Itumbaha exhibition to launder its public image and distract from the potentially looted objects in its collection.
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Researchers Discover Hidden Portrait in Magritte Painting
The face of a woman found beneath layers of paint in "La cinquième saison" (1943) could be that of the Surrealist artist's wife, Georgette Magritte.
Art
Hannah Barrett’s Monsters Envision a World Beyond Gender
The characters populating the artist’s paintings subvert the gender binary by combining masculine dandy finery with high femme elements.
Art
A Trove of Rarely Seen Photographs of Revolutionary Black Women
An exhibition at the Alice Austen House in Staten Island showcases Jean Weisinger’s formidable body of portraiture — and finally tells the photographer’s story.