Art
Required Reading
This week, the winners of Dronestagram, the Utah teapot, font culture wars, Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman, and more.
Required Reading
Art
Required Reading
This week, Kahn's Salk Institute, problems at MASS MoCA, how should we support scholars who receive online harassment, using art to understand "homosexual" relationships in Ancient Greece, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Warhol's first self-portrait goes to auction, Sam Durant speaks about "Scaffold," India's problem with architectural preservation, Zadie Smith on black pain, the six people who created "Silence = Death," and more.
Art
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This week, Koch Brothers and arts funding, touring the National Museum of Taiwan, a monument commemorating the generosity of the Choctaw Nation to the Irish, urbanism and Apple's new HQ, the mysteries of "bog bodies" unveiled, and more.
Art
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This week, the earliest humans, an enjoyable Bernadette Corporation takedown, feminist craftivism, Afrosurrealism, Arizona's strange Confederate monuments, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Pink Floyd calls Trump a pig, the problem with the Met Gala, working with Barkley L. Hendricks, an indigenous curator's view of the Venice Biennale, reviewing Vanessa Bell, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, South Korea's HighLine, the new Marciano Art Foundation in LA, gentrifying African art, chemtrail conspiracy theorists, peak latte, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the world's largest watercolor painting, the bedcover Rauschenberg stole, the language of autocrats, Crapumenta, Apple's new HQ, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Peggy Guggenheim's life in Venice, curating Black Radical Women in Brooklyn, talking to art dealers in Santa Fe, the horrible Damien Hirst show, the legacy of Confederate monuments, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, whitewashing ancient history, Alice Neel's Indian-American portrait, taking an online architecture course at Harvard, the birth of global tourism, street libraries and neoliberalism, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, painters painting themselves as lions, Google's modern day Library of Alexandria, the new Museum of Failure, the CIA and Arab modern art, Chinatowns today, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, clear coffee, gender-variant Indigenous art, a drone's-eye view, Melania Trump's photographic eye, I.M. Pei at 100, critic Jerry Saltz's former life as an artist, and more.