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.
Required Reading
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.
Art
Required Reading
This week: Renée Cox’s trailblazing photography, more Eric Adams shenanigans, the loneliness epidemic, and why do we binge-watch TV shows about work?
Art
Required Reading
This week: a 200-year-old message in a bottle, the poetry of Marcellus Williams, Ta-Nehisi Coates changes his mind, a new Mozart banger, and much more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, yoga and nationalism, opulent Tibetan mandalas, the environmental costs of ChatGPT, Earth’s temporary “mini-moon,” and much more.
Art
Required Reading
This week: Audre Lorde beyond the famous quotes, women activists in Haiti, the Black Polar explorer you’ve never heard of, a walrus takes a sabbatical, and much more.
Art
Required Reading
This week: diving into the Black Atlantic, Percival Everett’s James, “demure” by and for trans people, debunking the “marshmallow test,” and much more.
Art
Required Reading
This week: Noname’s Radical Hood Library, misogynoir and Kamala Harris, Marina Abramovic’s take on Barbie, Impressionism puns, and much more.
Art
Required Reading
This week: art-world dogs, the politics of book cover design, June Jordan’s unwavering anti-Zionism, collegiate architecture, Chinchilla XCX, and much more.