Arts

Cover of Drawn to Berlin by Ali Fitzgerald (courtesy Fantagraphics) It’s disquieting how easily we can dehumanize refugees. The AP referred to the asylum seekers currently making their way through Mexico as “a ragtag army of […]

Still from Rosa Luxemburg, directed by Margarethe von Trotta (1986) (Copyright New Yorker Films/courtesy Everett Collection) Margarethe von Trotta emerged in the 1970s as one of the most invigorating European filmmakers, part of the New German […]

#FearfulGirl (via Change the Ref) On Friday, November 2, the infamous “Fearless Girl” statue outside New York’s Wall Street donned a bulletproof vest brandishing in bold letters, “#FearfulGirl.” Manuel Oliver, an artist and the father of […]

Franck Riester (via Wikimedia Commons) Last week, the appointment of the fifth French Minister of Culture in six years, Franck Riester, perplexed the art world. President Emmanuel Macron had just fired the unpopular Francoise Nyssen, […]

Shahria Sharmin, from the series Call Me Heena (image courtesy of the artist) KATHMANDU, Nepal — Gender is not a performance in some places in the world, but rather a diktat. In Whose and Whom: The […]