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In Jerusalem, a Museum's Ethics Go Astray
The Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem recently unveiled a new exhibition, Finds Gone Astray, to great fanfare, but it has so many ethical and legal violations that it’s hard to know where to begin.
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Latinx Communities in SoCal Share Their Memories in a Collaborative Project
Guadalupe Rosales's project, which began with an Instagram account, presents images of Latinx communities that have been excluded from both popular and artistic media.
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Required Reading
This week, Hollywood's caravan problem, death of consensus, cooking ancient Hittite food, seniors and fake news, the High Line's problem, and more.
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Eleanor Ray’s Sacred Spaces
There is a deep, warm solitude running through all of Eleanor Ray’s paintings — a sense of being alone and luxuriating in the human silence and changing light.
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What Is “Outsider” in Unthinkable Times?
Art’s uplifting power is unmistakably real; today, the works of the most original autodidacts feel more compelling than ever.
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Bill Brandt’s British Reality Show
Brandt’s photographs are dense with the enigmas and silences, riddles and obscurities hidden beneath ordinary British lives.
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The Met’s Wrong Turn on Revisionism
When an exhibition is as puzzling as this one, it’s useful to step aside and reflect.
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A New Performance Series for Indigenous Cultures Spreads Across New York
First Nations Dialogues is the beginning of “a consortium of presenters committed to the decolonization process in the very DNA of their organizations.”
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Once a Year, Hundreds of Artists from Around India Gather on One Street to Sell Work
Chitra Santhe, one of the largest events of its kind in the country, is intended for artists who might not have access to the art market otherwise.
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Photos Reveal How San Francisco and LA Dramatically Grew After 1850
An exhibition documents how California and photography grew up together, and how photos influenced the rest of the country’s perception of the state’s two leading cities.
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Fantasy and Reality Collide in Ka-Man Tse’s Queer Photography
Tse's photos establish fantasy as a premiere space for LGBTQ people when reality may not be as welcome.
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A New Kind of Cinema Meditates on What It Means to Belong
Nguyen Trinh Thi's "Fifth Cinema" imagines a new kind of film for people between bordered nations who defy neat dichotomies.