The store where you experience a shoe with your whole body

Oct 15, 2025

Craft and The Great Exhibition brought the joy of a bouncy castle into the heart of Stockholm’s shopping district. Is this the future of retail? In a world drowning in digital noise—and increasingly dominated by the siren call of Temu and its endless scroll of...

Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now 

Oct 15, 2025

If patterns and performance were the only art options in town, there would still be plenty to see this week. You can find the latter, or archives of it, in one of the season’s major art events, MoMA Ps1’s newly opened survey of work by artist, performer, musician, and...

The Propaganda Dilemma 

Oct 15, 2025

A dilemma is at the center of Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print at Print Center New York. But first some background: The exhibition is based on and inspired by a series of infographics devised by W. E. B. Du Bois about the state of daily...

How to Protect Your Right to Culture

Oct 15, 2025

In modern democracies and republics across the world, governments organize group relations, compose and enforce laws, manage ties with other states, and collect taxes. Parallel to politics but no less essential for freedom and flourishing, they also often fund and...

Smithsonian Closes as Government Shutdown Enters Third Week

Oct 15, 2025

Less than a week after the National Gallery of Art announced its temporary closure due to the ongoing United States government shutdown, the rest of the Smithsonian Institution’s museums, centers, and the National Zoo followed suit, officially closing to the...

Weeks After Fire, Red Hook Open Studios Returns Defiantly 

Oct 15, 2025

Red Hook’s artist community is no stranger to life-altering disasters. In 2012, when Hurricane Sandy’s deluge left the coastal Brooklyn enclave five feet underwater and without power for weeks, artists held benefit exhibitions of storm-damaged work. In its aftermath,...