Opinion
The Queen of England’s Inaccessible Art Collection
We owe this rare opportunity to visit the Royal Collection to the temporary closure of the Picture Gallery, where the artworks usually hang.
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Required Reading
This week, reproductive rights in Texas, Hurricane Ida devastates New Orleans, deadly floods, and an alienated epidemiologist.
News
Louisiana Artists Mobilize to Help Hurricane Ida Victims
With official authorities overwhelmed and underfunded, locals have mobilized a robust relief response, among them members of the state’s thriving arts community.
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Remember That Banksy That Self-Destructed? It's Going Up for Auction
“Girl with a Balloon,” which started shredding as soon as it sold in 2018, could fetch more than $8 million.
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Announcement
Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research Presents Ancestral Cosmovisions/Territories of Action
This seminar and workshop series focusing on the crucial role of indigenous practices will cover decolonial methodologies and research that challenges land extraction and exploitation.
Opportunities
Opportunities in September 2021
From collaborative grants to open calls and experimental residencies, a list of opportunities that artists, writers, and art workers can apply for this month.
Art
Ron Athey, Transgressive Performance Artist
The Los Angeles-based artist gets his first major US museum show after working on the cultural fringes for decades.
Art
Kaws Is Terrible, But Thankfully Forgettable
No one encompasses that soulless supersizing of pop culture as clearly as Kaws.
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Marcia Schvartz Paints Argentina’s Unseen
Schvartz paints an unflinching portrait of the working class, of barrio culture, of women involved in the innocent yet staunchly political act of simply being.
History
The Photographers Who Captured Russia on the Eve of Its Revolution
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky and Maxim Dmitriev documented drastically different facets of Russia in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Opinion
The Missed Queerness of The Green Knight Adaptation
Instead of anachronistic models that already reassert themselves in modern society, we should be able to see on the big screen just how badass, freethinking, and intercultural the premodern world really was.
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A Resplendent Self-portrait by Tourmaline Enters Getty Collection
In “Summer Azure,” Tourmaline rockets upward into a cloudy blue sky, holding an astronaut helmet to her head.