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Art

All These Artworks Have Been Censored By Instagram

The Facebook-owned social platform has taken down drawings, photographs, paintings, and sculptures depicting nudity, even in partial or abstracted form.

Art

Nao Bustamante Redesigns a Common Gynecological Tool

Nao Bustamante has been thinking of ways to make the speculum less unpleasant for the millions of patients who encounter it each year.

Opinion

Austria Should Repatriate the Mexica Headdress

The headdress in Austria is the only one of its kind and it's not only a work of art, but a representation of the identity and landscape of Mexico that was stripped from the nation by colonial forces.

Exhibitions Champion Women-Led Movements and Socially Engaged Art at CCS Bard

Two shows at the Hessel Museum of Art in the Hudson Valley highlight the intimacy of works on paper and the under-examined “Pattern and Decoration” movement.

Art

What Does It Mean to Create Afrofuturistic Art?

In this apocalyptic future that Sedrick Chisom so vividly builds, all people of color have left Earth.

Opinion

Berlin's Humboldt Forum Is a Strange Marriage of Progressive Content and Conservative Form

The Humboldt Forum thinks it can genuinely pursue and cultivate “peaceful dialogue between cultures” from a position of global power. I’m not so sure.

Film

Visit the Beautifully Bizarre Cryptozoo, a Sanctuary for Mythological Creatures

Married creative duo Dash Shaw and Jane Samborski collaborated on the vivid adult animated feature.

Art

A Tour Through Tashkent’s Art-Filled Subway

Ballroom chandeliers, vast mosaics, and wood carvings await curious commuters.

News

Afghan Artists and Writers Urge US to Keep Embassy Open

The Afghan American Artists and Writers Association has supported calls for the United States government to keep its embassy in the capital open “at all costs” to protect refugees.

The Svane Family Foundation Has a Solution for Artists Hit Hard by the Pandemic: Give Them Money

Funneling $1 million in direct commissions to local artists, the new San Francisco art foundation’s Ark program is geared to keep artists in the Bay Area.