Art
Required Reading
This week, the new tennis pavilion at the White House, how Trump was meme'd into existence, plagues in Ancient Greece, COVID-19 takes, Myanmar's missing ruby, and more.
Required Reading
Art
Required Reading
This week, Kara Walker's new Obama painting, the truth about photography, why many diseases appear to originate in China, a new anti-Chinese symbol appears in Australia, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Ai Weiwei in Minneapolis, how museums can help people understand pandemics, what 'politically correct art' means, being a rich writer, how much animals sleep, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the full story behind the closing of the Marciano Art Foundation, the LA County Museum of Art's debt issues, colonialism and Parasite, a Hieronymus Bosch parade, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a new Banksy, LACMA is in bad shape, watch the Oscar-winning short animation film, Zadie Smith on Kara Walker, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, mass graves for aging turbines, the performer you might've missed at the Super Bowl, the Brexit coin's lack of an Oxford comma, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Yale University scraps its art history survey course, diversity in book publishing isn't looking great, designers debate typography, and more.
Art
Required Reading
In this week's Twitter-heavy edition, the world's second largest diamond, reviewing American Dirt, gentrification and the Istanbul Biennial, Twitterstorians, emoji RIPs, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a Mercedes inspired by the film Avatar, the psychosexual dimensions of Slave Play, Instagram censorship, the dance that revolutionized ballet, the anti-imperialist history of the untucked shirt, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Uber and Hyundai create a new air taxi prototype, an unlikely figure helped make the Met Museum more democratic, another look at Leonardo's role in "Salvator Mundi," a list of Black artists and writers in Appalachia, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, art's role in the creation of Asian American identity, the best and worst of graphic identities in 2019, gentrification and how it dehumanizes us, directory of culturally specific US museums created by people of color, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the meme of the decade, historical accuracy and the 1619 Project, how not to discuss African fiction, considering the Black interior art, Chinese restaurants are closing in the US, and more.