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This week, Charlotte Brontë miniature magazine, flax age vs. iron age, the problem with "landscape urbanism," China's new drone tech, US exporting homophobia, and more.
Required Reading
Art
Required Reading
This week, the role of the artist in the age of Trump, LACMA's stalled fundraising, Kurt Vonnegut on making a living as a writer, trans lives and cancel culture, and more.
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This week, the origin of Baby Shark, Martin Scorsese on Superhero movies, TikTok's censorship problems, rappers and the Trump name, Twitter's Saudi Arabia spies, and more.
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This week, architect unions, Aaron Sorkin writes a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Hal Foster on the new MoMA, Zadie Smith on Celia Paul’s new memoir, Kanye in Wyoming, and more.
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The week, a protest performance at the National Portrait Gallery, Disney's weird policy towards classic Fox movies, words about perception, the lack of food in video games, criminalizing the b-word, and more.
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This week, the rich are hoarding, feminist performance art responds to rape, the story behind one of the most famous game show jingles, and more.
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This week, a history of Porgy and Bess, talking to Simone Leigh, Amy Sherald, and Lorna Simpson, history of the Art Institute of Chicago's lions, otters chasing a butterfly, and more.
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This week, the northernmost hotel in the world, food culture may be killing us, college classism, a Gucci runway protest, a defense of fiction, and more.
Art
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This week, reviewing Félix Vallotton, whitesplaining history, a note to curators, women in the commercial art world, Judith Butler on anti-semitism, and more.
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This week, museums as agents of generational equity, duck gifs, sequel to Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, a chilling commercial against gun violence in schools, and a prosperous African in colonial Virginia.
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This week, Robin D.G. Kelley on the Arnautoff murals, Instagram is ruining architecture, animal rights on the left, the best classical music of the 21st century, and more.
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Required Reading
This week, Parul Sehgal's review of Salman Rushdie, Nell Painter on Romare Bearden, the Bret Stephens/David Karpf "bedbug" beef, Jenna Wortham on whiteness in current cinema, the infiltration of conservative media by white nationalists, and more.