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This week: Chitra Ganesh’s futuristic myths, André Breton and optimism, the mermaids of Florida, a Palestinian digital archive, Argentina and racism, and more.

Lakshmi Rivera Amin

July 16, 2026 — 6 min read

Artist Chitra Ganesh visualizes fictive universes that somehow still feel within our grasp, and her new exhibition at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, opens yet another portal of imagination. She drew inspiration for Journey to the Great Below, fittingly, from what scholars believe to be the oldest myth in the world: "The Descent of Inanna into the Underworld," a 17th-century BCE Mesopotamian tale of a goddess's sojourn to the land of the dead and back again. (© 2026 Tom Carter & Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art; photo Tom Carter)

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Craft in America Concludes its Handwork Series with NORTH and SOUTH

Celebrate Indigenous Cinema and Storytelling with Free Films

“Free Lyric” Tells the Story of a Young Black Female Rapper Cancelled for Her “Provocative” Lyrics

Contemporary Beadworker Ken Williams Jr Awarded Rakow Commission by Corning Museum of Glass