Art
In Trying Times, Buddhist Art Offers Spiritual Refuge
Institutions from the Newark Museum to the Rubin Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum recognize the presently growing need for compassionate spaces.
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Film
The First Feature Documentary Made Entirely in Virtual Reality
We Met in Virtual Reality raises the bar for VR filmmaking, and has an optimistic vision for the potential of the metaverse.
Art
Who Has the Authority to Tell a Region's History?
Lydia Ourahmane asks whether her journey to the remote Tassili n’Ajjer plateau should be considered neocolonial tourism or an artistic exploration of cultural heritage.
News
In Queens, a Storied Mural Is Saved From (Not by) Spider-Man
In 2014, Sony Pictures painted over the mural to promote its new Spider-Man movie. Now, artists Eve Biddle and Joshua Frankel have restored its original design.
Art
Required Reading
This week we discuss tanning, butt lift surgeries, trigger warnings, Documenta 15, and more.
News
"NRA Children's Museum" Visits Ted Cruz's House to Protest Gun Violence
It was a mile-long convoy of empty buses with over 4,000 vacant seats representing the number of young people killed by guns in the US.
Art
Robert Colescott's Indecorous Truths
Colescott’s use of stereotypes and humor continues to make viewers feel uncomfortable because it jabs indelicately at our complicity.
Art
We Need to Talk About the Middle Passage
Doreen Lynette Garner renders flesh in silicone with unforgiving realism, representing the pathology of colonialism, slavery, and white supremacy.
Books
The Iranian Poet Who Became an American Action Painter
A new book introduces two Manoucher Yektais: the stateless, anti-historical Modernist painter and the poet writing narrative verse exclusively in Farsi.
News
Indigenous Groups in Canada Call on the Vatican to Return Their Cultural Belongings
First Nations, Métis, and Inuit leaders have asked for their cultural heritage to be returned ahead of the pope's visit to Canada.
Opinion
Sketching the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard Trial
As an official observer, advocate, survivor, and citizen, I spiraled into a vertigo worsened by the adamant conjectures of fanatics and truthers.
News
Italy Thwarts Potential Illegal Sale of $2M Artemisia Gentileschi Painting
The Carabinieri's art crime unit said Gentileschi's masterpiece "Caritas Romana" was on its way to be sold in Vienna.