Activist and teacher Awdah Hathaleen assisted with filming the Oscar-winning documentary, which chronicled the displacement of Palestinians from the Occupied West Bank.
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Ruth Asawa Proved That Mothering Is Inherently Artistic
Jordan Troeller’s book about the Bay Area sculptor and her artist-mother community shows us how reciprocity and caretaking become the work itself, not just the subject or the conditions.
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New York City and Upstate Shows to See Right Now
Histories are at the heart of some of our favorite shows, from queer video art to the cultural and familial traditions invoked by Candida Alvarez and Thomas Holton.
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Twenty Years of Life in Chinatown
Thomas Holton photographed the Lam family for two decades, drawing attention not only to where but also how they live.
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Framing Heritage Destruction as a Human Rights ViolationÂ
The way in which assaults on cultural and religious sites are presented to the public is critical to linking these attacks to atrocity crimes, a new book argues.
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Fire on Miccosukee Reservation Engulfs Homes and ArtifactsÂ
Among the structures destroyed was a building housing the Creativity Center, where community members learned to sew, bead, and make traditional patchwork.
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Met Museum Trustee Among Victims of Midtown Manhattan Shooting
Wesley LePatner, who was elected to The Met’s board this year, was fatally shot by a gunman in Blackstone’s Park Avenue headquarters.
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A Glimpse Inside the Dizzying Psyche of Daniel Johnston
An exhibition features over 300 drawings by the late artist, whose maximalist creative output was his main form of resistance against his mental demons.
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The Poetic Optimism of Latina Lesbian Activism
An exhibition centers efforts in Los Angeles from the 1980s to the 2000s to chart an ongoing struggle for liberation.
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Robert Rauschenberg’s Centenary Gets Major Guggenheim Show
One of several global events marking the late American artist’s centenary, Life Can’t Be Stopped will reunite over a dozen artworks at the Manhattan institution.
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Memory Becomes Form in the Art of Candida Alvarez
Abstraction and representation bleed into one another in the same way that memories momentarily coagulate into images before dissolving again.
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A Paean to the Bygone “Borscht Belt”
Marisa J. Futernick creates fictions inspired by the Catskills, a vacation destination for midcentury Jewish families.