Art
The Origins of Indigo, That Bluest Blue
While indigo’s etymology identifies it as a “product of India,” it has a long history.
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In Brief
This Instagram Account Catalogues the Curious Ways People Stand
The popular account presents a gallery of hundreds of photos of people from around the world struggling to stand vertically.
Film
The 500-Year-Old Ghost of a Conquistador Wanders Mexico
The documentary/fiction hybrid film 499 uses a fictional character to speak to real-life contemporary colonized people.
Opinion
Facebook’s Censoring of Women's Bodies is Nipocrisy
As long as Facebook and Instagram maintain a policy that female nipples are offensive and male nipples are not, they get to decide whose bodies count as valid for public viewing and whose bodies don't.
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Drake's Next Album Cover Is Comically Bad — and Designed by Damien Hirst
The cover is a deluded, self-referential tribute to Hirst's career.
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Key Buildings for Chicanx Artists Added to LA Historic-Cultural Monument List
The Centro de Arte Publico and Mechicano Art Center were recognized for their contributions to the longstanding tradition of Chicanx cultural heritage in LA.
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With a New Professional Development Program, American Art Journal Intends to Make Scholarly Publishing More Equitable
Scholars who are producing research on US-American art history and related visual culture topics have until September 15 to apply for Toward Equity in Publishing.
Art
Computer-Generated New Yorker Cartoons Are Delightfully Weird
The palimpsestic drawings and irreverent captions dissolve into senselessness, upending the ubiquitous cartoon medium.
Opinion
It’s Time to Commission a Memorial to Slavery at McGill University
The memorial should provoke questions such as: What are the implications for such a memorial for the descendants of the Black and Indigenous enslaved?
Film
Confronting Doubt with the Power of Shakespeare
Argentine director Matías Piñeiro’s Isabella is the latest in a string of offbeat films about the nature of performance and creativity.
News
Black Daguerreotypists Highlighted at the Smithsonian
The American Art Museum purchased a collection of early American photographs spanning the 1840s to the mid-1920s.
News
A COVID-19 Mask That Kills the Virus? Scientists Say Yes
The technology is named "SakCu" — a combination of "Sak," the word for silver in Mayan, and "Cu," the chemical symbol for copper.