Art
Carmen Winant’s Radical Images of Women Giving Birth
In “My Birth,” Carmen Winant directly addresses our general discomfort with the physical aspect of childbirth, forcing viewers to look directly at it, the universal starting point.
Essays
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David Bowie, the Nobel Prize, and Panic in Stockholm
The current drama around the Swedish Academy has reached Shakespearian proportions, and might even flip the way we look at contemporary culture.
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Artists Put Ireland’s Abortion Referendum into Perspective
The debate only appears to be strictly about the rights of women versus the rights of the unborn; deeper, historic, social complexities of female sexuality are all but lost. Art can go further.
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Istanbul's Leading Contemporary Art Space Reopens in a Very Different Turkey
The inaugural exhibition in SALT Beyoğlu's revamped space, which was shuttered in 2016, features works by the Turkish artists Aydan Murtezaoğlu and Bülent Şangar.
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A Palestinian Artist and Former Soldier Makes Abstract Paintings with a Gun
In Khaled Jarrar's performance "I am Good at Shooting, Bad At Painting" in the Arizona desert, he used a weapon to create art. Abstract Art.
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Photographs that Refuse to Stay Silent on the Palestinian Catastrophe
What stands out in Wissam Nassar's photography of the current conflict in Palestine is the intensity with which certain bodies are articulating their task, refusing to perform disability, instead exuding capacity.
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A Poet Who Delivers Dreams to Your Doorstep
During the day Mathias Svalina writes the dreams. At 2am, he begins to deliver.
Art
Artists and Curators Weigh In on Baltimore Museum’s Move to Deaccession Works by White Men to Diversify Its Collection
The Baltimore Museum of Art will deepen its holdings of works by women and artists of color using funds from sales of seven redundant works.
Art
How Adrian Piper Challenges Us to Change the Ways We Live
In her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, Piper makes visible the ways in which we are held in place by other people and their perceptions, and how their perceptions lead to the politics and philosophies that make up our world.
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The Art of Eating Cherry Blossoms (with Recipes)
A normal artist would just take a picture of the cherry tree.
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The Limits of Art in One of Mexico's Most Violent Cities
The city where I grew up, Culiacán, is home to three generations of drug lords — and a peculiar outdoor garden filled with contemporary art.
Art
Remembering Studio Ghibli Co-Founder Isao Takahata, Who Imbued Animation with Emotion
Takahata's genius lay in his effortless ability to portray the mundane — something not often associated with the motion-focused energy of animation.