Art
Jim Weidle and Our Beautiful Despair
In his paintings of ground cover and gravel, Weidle touches on the despair that has replaced optimism in the United States, the sense that the future is bleak.
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Searching for Brazilian Identity Between Performance and Life
Through regional music and dance Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca affirm as well as explore and subvert Brazilian identity.
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Painting Rejected From California Biennial Over Image of Swastika
Artist Ben Sakoguchi, who was imprisoned with his family in a Japanese internment camp, said his works are "a reminder of our history and of how far we still have to go as a society."
Film
The Elegant Surrealism of an Animated Cult Classic
Mamoru Oshii's Angel's Egg is a haunting, elegiac phantasmagoria rich with allusive imagery and singular in its artistry.
Opinion
Your Land Acknowledgment Is Not Enough
Land acknowledgment without action is an empty gesture, exculpatory and self-serving.
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The Public Theater Presents Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun
Directed by Tony Award nominee Robert O’Hara, this new revival explores Hansberry’s legacy and the women in her play. On view in NYC this fall.
Art
Duncan Grant's Erotic Drawings Explore a Queer Utopia
A new exhibition presents recently discovered works by Grant in conversation with commissioned pieces by artists of today, including other LGBTQ+ creators.
Art
Once Upon a Time in Albuquerque
Karsten Creightney’s familiar yet uncanny landscapes transport, disrupt, and open possibilities for new worlds.
News
Artist Silke Otto-Knapp, Who Made Watercolor "Dance," Dies at Age 52
The artist and beloved professor of painting and drawing at UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture had battled ovarian cancer for two years.
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Activists Crash British Museum Opening to Protest Egypt's Political Prisoners
The anti-fuel group Culture Unstained criticized the museum’s connections to British Petroleum and its silence on the imprisonment of Egyptian political critic Alaa Abd El-Fattah.
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Russian Missile Strikes Damage at Least Seven Museums in Kyiv
Ukraine’s defense minister called the strikes, which targeted power plants and civilian areas, “war crimes.”