Film
Trashy Italian TV and Other Pandemic Escapes
Frey ponders why she felt comfort in television and film content that intellectuals often take pride in dismissing.
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Decolonizing the (Sitcom) Museum
What does Rutherford Falls, a new TV series that prominently features two small town museums, tell us about the way people see the contentious stories on display in history and art institutions?
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Call My Agent and the Crisis at Work
The French television program does a good job exploring how people cope with work-related drama and its impact on relationships.
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Watching TV During the Pandemic
From European detective dramas to art documentaries, Yau reflects on some highlights from a year inside.
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Screens: 🎨 Art Critics on Pandemic TV 📺
In this issue, we asked six art critics to focus their critical lens on the television programs they were watching during the pandemic.
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Required Reading
This week, the scourge of immersive exhibitions, the popularity of anti-vax deathbed videos, the pregnant man emoji, Chomsky on Afghanistan, Met Gala commentary, and more.
Opinion
Thinking About Art on the 10th Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
It seems like we broke the ice to a growing consciousness that the status quo isn't going to work.
News
Insider Trading Scandal Hits NFT Industry
Nate Chastain, OpenSea’s head of product, was ousted on Twitter by a user who posted questionable transactions from his wallet.
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Announcement
ICA Philadelphia Presents the First Major Retrospective on Ulysses Jenkins
Over 50 years of the artist’s video and media work on how images, sound, and cultural iconography inform representation is on view through December 30.
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Objects that Help Tell the Story of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas’s Romance
The 40-year relationship that unfolded between Toklas and Stein became the bedrock of Paris’s artistic avant-garde.
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Women Artists Are in the Spotlight in West Palm Beach
Fifty works, all created by women, are brought together across time and media as the Norton Museum of Art reckons with the art world’s patriarchal past and present.
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A Collector of Antiques Asks: "Can Something Be Racist and Also Be Beautiful?"
In the Blactiquing Space, curator and collector Kevin Jones presents deeply fraught objects with emotion, connection, and care.