Art
Required Reading
This week, the library of King Ashurbanipal, the new Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, geographies of fear in antiquity, China's Uighurs, alt-right New York, and more.
Required Reading
Art
Required Reading
This week, New York Times's Facebook bombshell, a critic’s nightmare, Black Athena revisted, a fake band gets found out, a banned commercial from Iceland, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the new National Veterans Memorial and Museum, a strange dog-headed spider, Fredric Jameson on Karl Ove Knausgaard, Warhol's sexism, KitKats in Japan, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, debating fascists, Orhan Pamuk on photographer Ara Guler, an alternative history of Silicon Valley “disruption,” Syrian voices are left largely unheard, dressing up as Michelle Obama, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the Village Voice and photography, fiscal responsibility as an artist, dating Mt. Vesuvius, white critics and black art, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Chicago cashing in on Kerry James Marshall's art, honored the “eye of Istanbul,” ballet’s #MeToo moment, evolution of the New York City pizza slice shop, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Ovid and pickup artists, photojournalism and #MeToo, sales in the music industry, pampered princelings, why you can’t stop looking at other people’s screens, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Nigeria's golden age, social justice and culture wars, are we too pessimistic for the World’s Fair, combatting manspreading, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a new biography of Carleton Watkins, Noam Chomsky on the State of the Empire, Mac Collins's afrofuturist chair, Brian Acton spilled the beans on Facebook, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Tulsa’s new $465 million park, an Assyrian relief goes to auction, the rise of Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie declaration, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a new Scottish museum, white supremacy and white artists, an art critic records a year of his professional life, fake images of Islamic science, the battle over Classics, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, an apartment block with movable walls, the magazine industry’s identity crisis, role of memory and monuments in Yerevan, Google's drive to kill the URL, the London banker who broke the world, and more.