Yale Art Gallery Withdraws Federal Grant Requests After Trump DEI Ban

The Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven has withdrawn two federal grant requests for a forthcoming Southeast African art exhibition in the wake of Trump’s bans on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming and initiatives. To cover the $200,000 funding...

Buyer of Maurizio Cattelan Banana Invests $100M in Trump Crypto

Crypto mogul Justin Sun is — unsurprisingly — making another controversial investment decision, and this time, we wish it were just an overpriced fruit duct-taped to a wall.  Last Wednesday, July 9, the notorious buyer of Maurizio Cattelan’s...

My Dialogues With a Political Prisoner

Carlos Martiel, “Untitled” (2025), acrylic on cardboard with Cuban cigarette packet papers, from the installation Aponte’s Lost Podcast in Coco Fusco’s exhibition I Learned to Swim on Dry Land at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art...

Rashaad Newsome’s Futurist Manifesto of Black Joy

Rashaad Newsome’s Assembly is technically a documentary about a performance. But calling it that feels small. Yes, it documents his installation at the Park Avenue Armory, but what it offers is a vision, a map, a speculative ritual for survival. At its core, Assembly...