Film
The Allure and Challenges of K-Pop’s Biggest Group
Bring the Soul follows the Korean boy band BTS on its recent world tour, showing the members' incredible grind and perseverance.
Review
Music
Dive Into K-Pop With Five Essential Music Videos
Getting into the inexplicable sounds, powerhouse choreography, and high-concept narratives and visuals of K-pop can be intimidating. Here are some iconic music videos to help any newbie get started.
Books
What Happened When Fred Wilson Dug Beneath a Museum's Floorboards
The book Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson published in 1994 has particular insights that go beyond institutional critique and into our individual complicities that are crucial to consider now.
Books
Living in a Renaissance Palace, an Art Historian Uncovers an Amazing Past
When an unexpected opportunity arose to spend her year living in the famed Palazzo Rucellai, Allison Levy seized on it.
Art
How Crafting and Welding in Rural New Mexico Shaped an Artist
The familiar world of her childhood, made strange by time, is the impetus for Paula Castillo’s new body of work.
Art
The Undersung Art of Native American Women, Front and Center
Inside a years-long effort to show a millennium’s worth of art by Native American women.
Art
A Collection of Curiosities
The exhibition Cabinets of Curiosities is essentially a collection of collections that has everything for the postmodern globalist in the age of data retrieval.
Art
Mapping Non-European Visions of the World
Maps drawn by Indigenous artists at the behest of the Spanish in the 16th century illustrate the amalgamation of visual traditions during the early years of contact between Indigenous groups and colonizers.
Art
Finding Human Interest Stories in Virtual Reality
YouTube creator Syrmor talks to people in an online social game. Their stories are often harrowing and emotional — even though they're coming from the mouths of cartoon characters.
Art
Exposing Ghosts of the Past, Michael Rakowitz Pulls Back the Curtain
Throughout his career, Rakowitz has been making artful reconstructions of lost heritage.
Film
Film Studios Left Hollywood in the 1950s and Changed the Business Forever
After World War II, movie studios like MGM and Paramount found themselves at a crossroads as they adapted to changes brought on by both the war and the advancement of filmmaking technology.
Art
Andrea Fraser Puts Male Feminism on the Line
In her performance, Fraser plays the role of male feminists, both empathizing with them and exposing their failure to empathize with the goals of the Women’s Movement.