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Today, Williamsburg gets its first Hasidic art gallery, a look at how the Venice Biennale makes the life of working Venetians harder, and considering Betty Tompkins’s powerful #MeToo series on display in LA.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Artist Betty Tompkins Overlays Women’s Bodies With #MeToo Testimonies

Tompkins unflinchingly looks at how female bodies are displayed, disciplined, and offered up to men.

Anya Ventura

Exploring Fraught Histories at the Liverpool Biennial

Particularly well incorporated into the city’s everyday, the biennial’s latest edition attempts to grapple with Liverpool’s colonial past.

Aurella Yussuf

In Tragic Jungle, the "Heart of Darkness" Fights Back

Yulene Olaizola’s film tries to subvert the tropes of colonialist art about the Central American wilderness.

Alonso Aguilar

Williamsburg Gets Its First Hasidic Art Gallery

The lively opening of Shtetl Gallery signals shifting perceptions around Hasidic art in the local community.

Hakim Bishara

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