Secret agenda
Former employee of Britain's global surveillance centre GCHQ Katherine Gun smiles as she leaves the Old Bailey in London, 25 February 2004. Photo: Reuters/David Bebber BEB/ASA/AA It is now more...
Donda: The hype, the controversy, the music, the Kanye of it all, explained
Kanye West onstage at the “Donda by Kanye West” listening event at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on July 22, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Universal Music Group Kanye’s...
Why Shang-Chi’s success matters — and why it shouldn’t
Simu Liu in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. | Marvel Studios Shang-Chi is a victory for representation. Quantifying what that means is complicated. It’s been two years...
When Artists Are Hackers
LOS ANGELES — The group exhibition So Excited at Steve Turner is premised on art-making as a form of hacking, a hacker defined as “someone who is immersed in the...
The Lyrical and Funny Art of Erasing Words From Books
On pages 36 and 37 of Captain January, a 19th-century children’s novel by Laura E. Richards, Mary Ruefle has erased all but the following words: “My / heart / was...
Why the Mbari Houses in Nigeria Became Extinct
Current conversations on the relationship between colonial history and Indigenous art often focus on the physical repatriation of extant artifacts, as seen in a recent wave of museums returning Benin...