Required Reading

This week, another Benin bronze is returned to Nigeria, looking at the Black Arts Movement in the US South, Senegal’s vibrant new architecture, why films are more gray, and much more.

This week, a massive digital version of Rembrandt’s “Night Watch,” academics on Twitter, transgender and nonbinary methods of art history, the immorality of diet culture, and more.

This week, Metro Pictures officially closed, tributes to bell hooks, the Wayfair conspiracy, celebrity profiles, and more.

This week, the persistence of the non-modern, breaking up with the arts, photography and ethics, opera surprise, and more.

This week, I’ve included a lot of humor because with the recent news on the coronavirus variant, we can all use it.

This week, a Frank Stella is installed as a public artwork in NYC, the women behind some iconic buildings, looting Cambodia, fighting anti-boycott laws, and more.

This week, the only LGBTQ+ historic district in the US, three Asian-American Modernists, Ai Weiwei on reclaiming art from capitalism, Thanksgiving and genocide, and more.

This week, Evangelical ballet murder, reimagining NYC streets, Edward Snowden on Ai Weiwei’s new memoir, racism of urban design, and much more.

This week, Bored Yacht Club’s NFT millions, fry bread, new space race capitalism, the legacy of Nazi art, and more.

This week, how Hollywood tried to suppress a film post-9/11, Walt Whitman’s words for today, Dune director breaks down a pivotal scene, DW documents the environmental scourge of fast fashion, and much more.

This week, the National Gallery of Art finally acquired a major work by Faith Ringgold, the director of The Velvet Underground talks film, North America’s Hindu Nationalist problem, canceling legacy admissions, and more.

This week, addressing a transphobic comedy special on Netflix, the story behind KKK hoods, cultural identity fraud, an anti-Semitic take on modern art, and more.