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Good morning. 🌤️ Today, an artist decides to leave little sculptures around New York City, protesters demand the resignation of the Museum of Chinese in America's director, and we start a three-part series that looks at the depiction of the Holocaust in film.
— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief
An Artist Inserts His Sculptures Into the Everyday Around NYC
In lieu of a gallery, Adam Milner’s sculptures can be seen all around New York City — from a bodega to a dog’s collar. | Valentina Di Liscia
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Demonstrators demanding the resignation of MOCA director Nancy Yao Maasbach
Protesters demand the resignation of Nancy Yao Maasbach, the director of the Museum of Chinese in America,
New research on a famous 3,700-year-old clay tablet reveals that the Babylonians studied trigonometry before the Greeks.
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LATEST IN ART
A Exhibition Offers an Ode to the Nuances of Diasporic Identities
Collectively, the artists present a series of equally localized and haptic meditations on what it takes to be present in an increasingly globalized world. | Yume Murphy
A Photographer’s Intimate Tribute to SOPHIE, a Visionary Gone Too Soon
Initially conceived alongside the musician, Zoe Chait’s Noise memorializes the public and private lives of a figure whose tragic death earlier this year sent shockwaves through the music industry. | Madeleine Seidel
The Pandemic’s Silver Lining for Artists
If you’re an artist, I challenge you to leverage these new dynamics and not rely on galleries as a necessity to sell your work. | Justine Cohen
FILM & DOCUMENTARY
How Movies Have “Witnessed” the Holocaust Over the Decades
Since cameras were first pointed at the concentration camps, filmmakers have faced challenges in how to respectfully and meaningfully depict atrocity. | Justine Smith
Experimental Animation Gems by Suzan Pitt, Walerian Borowczyk, and More
Here are some cartoons outside the mainstream, from a mischievously psychosexual short to an allegory for post-WWII Europe. | Ela Bittencourt
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