Hyperallergic (Page 958)

Art

Bisa Butler’s Worlds in Cut Cloth

Birds and airplanes soar, horses gallop, purples meet yellows, cerulean blues tango with magenta in geometric patterns, foliate designs crash into damask.

Art

Richard Mosse's Photos Exoticize Disaster

Employing drones, Mosse creates psychedelic aerial maps of ecological degradation.

Books

A Female Vision of Sci-Fi

Izumi Suzuki introduced a different vision of femininity, one that departed from the stereotypes so abundant in the work of male writers.

Mural Arts Philadelphia and Mural Arts Institute Present Arts + Environmental Justice Symposium

This week-long event series looks at transformative work happening at the intersection of arts, community-based cultural practice, and environmental justice.

Comics

Seen and Overheard at Frieze New York

“Oh no, she’s good. She’s a pandemic baby.”

Art

Meh, Frieze Is Back

Mixed feelings aside, we can all agree on one thing: it was better than an online viewing room.

Film

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist Gets the Netflix Treatment

The miniseries This Is a Robbery is at its best when working through the stranger details of the infamous, still-unsolved crime.

Film

Faya Dayi Tells Stories of Land Kinship in Drought-Ridden Ethiopia

Screening at New Directors/New Films, Jessica Beshir’s film floats in the space between documentary and poetry.

Books

A Data Artist’s Guide to Putting People (and Privacy) First

With Living In Data, Jer Thorp demonstrates the importance of enabling people to participate in the process of creating and telling the stories behind data.

Comics

Can’t Wait for the Post-mask Art Openings

How else can I scan the room for someone I actually want to talk to?

News

A Roman Emperor and His Finger, Separated for 500 Years, Finally Reunited

The Louvre Museum has returned an index finger to a massive bronze of Emperor Constantine after it was long mistaken for a toe.