Art
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This week, contemporary art and global inequality, Melania's jacket and fascist history, queer Turkish identities, children and their toys, and more.
Required Reading
Art
Required Reading
This week, the new Zaha Hadid Architects-designed hotel opened in Macau, Elizabeth Alexander on Lorna Simpson, art collector and art publisher Peter Brant sounds, um, problematic, "Terrorientalist Landscapes," Paul Gauguin's midlife crisis, and more.
Art
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This week, Murakami and Kanye, museums confronting colonialism, André Leon Talley talks race, the Enlightenment's racism, winning a house in Detroit, Falz's This Is Nigeria, and more.
Art
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This week, the best of the architecture biennial in Venice, Kerry James Marshall on Charles White, the problematic "Glendale Biennial," telling the story of the Chinatown Art Brigade, and more.
Art
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This week, Lorna Simpson collages, two very different stories about Saudi art, the politics of photo sharing, Dia:Beacon satire, Detroit Techno history, Trump as Charlie Brown, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the man that helped launch black modernism in the US, considering Nobuyoshi Araki, crowdfunding as a political weapon, a reading list for mental health month, the Laurel/Yanny divide, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, when Canadian students called the art of Carrie Mae Weems racist, Alexa and the blind, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kanye, black jazz ambassadors during the Cold War, and more.
Art
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This week, dating a museum, trusting Silicon Valley with our common history, a new book on photographer Garry Winogrand, how slaves are depicted in Ancient art, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Hubble Space Telescope turns 28, IKEA might develop a hotel, democracy vs. the algorithm, is Instagram over, Etel Adnan's color, angry geek culture, and more.
Art
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This week, Yayoi Kusama goes floral, the battle over US identity, considering David Goldblatt in Paris, Humanities problems, reviewing the Pioneers of African-American Cinema, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Soul of a Nation in Arkansas, "female monsters" in art, new "golden age" of black painting, trends at Milan Design Week, Zaha Hadid's only built house is complete, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, reviewing Civilizations, conserving Edgar Degas's tutus, tech's "disruption" of photography, Facebook's long history of apologies, architects and designers championing afrofutrism, and more.