Film
The Public and Private Lives of BTS Blur on Tour
Break the Silence, the new concert film about the incredibly popular K-pop band, demonstrates the vulnerability that makes them so beloved by fans.
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Art
A Timely Look at the Escape From Paris After Nazi Invasion
The intriguing exhibition Parisian Exodus demonstrates the importance of documenting such moments of upheaval with nuance.
Art
Peter Williams’s Afrofuturist World and Its Cyclones of Color
It is past time that Williams receives the institutional attention he deserves.
Books
Buckminster Fuller's Delightfully Idiosyncratic Recipes
Re-issued on the 125th anniversary of his birth, Synergetic Stew is a document of a magical life of heady science matched only by Fuller’s penchant for “light, wild things.”
Art
An Online Archive Tells an Alternate History of US Monuments and Architecture
At the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, a new “living archive” of stories, objects, and photographs expands our understanding of how we might reconfigure our relationship to the present.
Art
Joiri Minaya Isn’t Here to Entertain Your Tropical Fantasies
I’m here to entertain you, but only during my shift flirts with beauty, ecology, and the desire to be seen, without capitulating to the pull of exoticization.
Art
The Boldly Feminine Gaze of Hiba Schahbaz
Schahbaz’s large-scale paintings, on view in her latest exhibition Dreaming, assert the right to claim and occupy space as a woman.
Film
The Anti-Immigrant Ballot Measure That Galvanized California's Latinx Community
187: The Rise of the Latino Vote tells the story of Proposition 187, the 1994 attempt to block undocumented people from public services, and how it was ultimately defeated.
Film
The Creative Approach One Filmmaker Is Taking to Depict the Hong Kong Protests
Experimental director Simon Liu's shorts seek "a new lexicon of approaches" to the city.
Books
Making the Case for Debt Abolition
Saddled with student loan debt? Now might be a good time to pick up the Debt Collective’s Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay, which makes a compelling case for “economic disobedience.”
Music
A Wall of Hyperpop Sound
Although Brakence is not the only Gen-Z singer-songwriter to play with noise and distortion, few so gleefully enact the violent collision of forms.
Books
Using Language to Investigate Whiteness
In Wite Out Linda Norton seeks the words to envision relationships not shaped by hundreds of years of white supremacy.