Art
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This week: letterpress printing in the digital age, the origin of the snow globe, remembering Jimmy Carter, why Hollywood ditched color, and much more.
Required Reading
Art
Required Reading
This week, the role of the artist in times of crisis, how Yale used counterterrorist tactics against student protesters, decoding 2,000-year-old scrolls, PR-washing Saudi Arabia, the Chinese god of male-male love, and much more.
Art
Required Reading
This week: Dalit art and appropriation, Gisèle Pelicot and dignity for survivors, a Dakota recipe for holiday meals, the truth about Santa, and more.
Art
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This week: An homage to Romani culture in Manhattan, AI movies in theaters, Syrian activists speak out, remembering Nikki Giovanni, Luigi Mangione fever, and much more.
Art
Required Reading
This week: the unsolved mystery of an 18th-century portrait, journalists leave X en masse, orcas wear “dead salmon hats,” exorbitant college furniture, a puppy art gallery, and much more.
Art
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This week: The Indigenous woman in Dorothea Lange’s famous photo, Brutalist speakers, a new mural in SF, horses as healers, and can we really speak to animals?
Art
Required Reading
This week: a queer Black architect and her archives, the cozy tech aesthetic, “paleo-artists,” honest reviews of elementary school plays, nonsensical design, and much more.
Art
Required Reading
This week: the painting that inspired August Wilson, a lesbian magazine celebrates 50 years, sign language commodification, bodega cats in NYC, and much more.
Art
Required Reading
This week: Civil Rights photography, Chicago’s 1970s abortion network, the Nancy Drew convention, election memes so we can laugh to keep from crying, cinema-dog-raphy, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week: Courbet gets the electoral treatment, the politics of the waistline, ugly medieval dogs, and what happens when you fall out of love with an artwork?
Art
Required Reading
This week: Recreating Rubens’s studio, Brooklyn honors the legacy of rapper Ka, the largest map of the cosmos to date, Ratatouille in real life, and are video games art?
Art
Required Reading
This week: public art around NYC, artists in Gaza honor the land, China’s boba-industrial complex, the UK’s last African colony gets returned, how to out-diva JD Vance, and much more.