The Berlin Biennale’s Complicit Silence

Jul 31, 2025

BERLIN — The Berlin Biennale had not even opened its doors to the public when criticism started rolling in. In May, curator Zasha Colah told an interviewer, “There is no censorship, I would say, in Germany.” In reality, there is ample documentation of the German...

Anti-Gentrification Protest Targets Mexico City Contemporary Art Museum

Jul 31, 2025

MEXICO CITY — A group of anti-gentrification protesters vandalized the contemporary art museum of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) on Sunday, July 20, as demonstrations against rising housing prices and the growing displacement of local residents...

No Other Land Contributor Killed by Israeli Settler

Jul 31, 2025

Awdah Hathaleen, a beloved Palestinian activist and teacher who worked on the Oscar-winning documentary film No Other Land (2024), was shot and killed by an Israeli settler on Monday in Umm al-Khair, in the Occupied West Bank. Yuval Abaraham, an Israeli investigative...

Ruth Asawa Proved That Mothering Is Inherently Artistic

Jul 31, 2025

In 2008, I gave birth at home, in the bed I still sleep in today, to my second child; and instead of marveling at their vernix-covered scalp and the fact of their being born in the caul during a full moon, I had an extended anxiety attack, convinced I wasn’t a...