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This week: Isabella Hammad on Etel Adnan, a mural for Emily Pike, the problem with mainstream film, experimental ASMR, legalizing bodega cats, and much more.
Required Reading
Art
Required Reading
This week: Anne Carson on handwriting and Cy Twombly, Roberta Flack’s outsized legacy, the downfall of Shein, the “Zillennial” curse, and much more.
Art
Required Reading
This week: Lauren Halsey’s love letter to South Central, James Baldwin’s sartorial revolution, car-free neighborhood design, painterly book covers, and much more.
Art
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This week: a trip to “Yokofest,” outsmarting surveillance pricing, the Haida Nation reclaims its land, dachshund side-eye paintings, and did Microsoft invent a new type of matter?
Art
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This week: snarky dance criticism, a Super Bowl performer’s protest, Barbara Kingsolver builds a rehab center, Chappell Roan starts a trend, and did Rupi Kaur’s poem age well?
Art
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This week: Sanford Biggers’s musical sculpture, Bayard Rustin’s secret antiquities, lessons from Octavia Butler, elephant autonomy, Severance bros are back, and much more.
Art
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This week: Celia Paul’s transportive brush, yoga-washing, the mythology of American orphanhood, one grandma’s Lunar New Year photoshoot, the science of laughter, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week: female directors dominate Indian film, fiber arts as therapy, the chilling influence of conservative YouTubers, Bad Bunny’s new album, rodent cinematography, and much more.
Art
Required Reading
This week: subway art honors NYC’s Native history, García Márquez on Netflix, Rachmaninoff’s last student turns 100, test-driving IKEA rooms, and much more.
Art
Required Reading
This week: photojournalists amid California’s wildfires, Leonora Carrington in Mexico, Black Philly artists sew reusable pads, an AI lawsuit tracker, and can fiction make men better people?
Art
Required Reading
This week: letterpress printing in the digital age, the origin of the snow globe, remembering Jimmy Carter, why Hollywood ditched color, and much more.
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.