Art
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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.
Required Reading
Art
Required Reading
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.
Art
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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.
Art
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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.
Art
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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.
Art
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This week, the 1619 project, personal book curators, corporate America’s ‘Elite Charade,' Epstein's intellectual enabler, hand embroidered animation, and more.
Art
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This week, artist Arthur Jafa, the history of the Stradivarius violin, the politics of criticism, Latinx underrepresentation in the US media, an inflatable garden, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Lewis Hine's child labor images, assessing Artforum's #MeToo fallout, New York's most "toxic" museum boards, the rise of the right on YouTube, dissecting an Instragram influencer, and more.
Art
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This week, Sam Gilliam, art as an asset class, John Waters at Mary Oliver's bookshop, Ai Weiwei on Hong Kong protest, the radical black history of techno music.
Art
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This week, Mapplethorpe's not-so-original images, indigo in ancient Peru, White Girl Art bingo, Western Civilization and white nationalism, a real life Snow White, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, world's largest intact Ancient mosaic, Gordon Parks's 1961 images of a favela dweller, critic Inga Saffron roasts Stu Bykofsky, huge cache of 1980s noise and post-punk cassettes go online, spaceflight as colonialism, and more.