Senator Seeks Probe Into MoMA Trustee Leon Black’s Epstein Ties 

Aug 19, 2025

Leon Black at the Museum of Modern Art’s film benefit on November 19, 2018 (photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) A Democratic senator and ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee is calling for a probe into the embattled financier and Museum of...

James Bidgood’s Dreamy Homoerotica 

Aug 19, 2025

In the 1960s, New York City’s underground gay scene was bustling. Yet the photography that emerged from this pre-Stonewall milieu is seldom exhibited publicly. Lucky for us, CLAMP has risen to the occasion with Dreamlands, a riveting summer exhibition of photography...

Another Awkward MLK Sculpture Draws Mixed Responses 

Aug 19, 2025

An 11-foot-tall bronze sculpture of Martin Luther King, Jr., was unveiled in Winter Park, Florida. (all photos by and courtesy Oasis Engineering LLC) A bronze sculpture of Martin Luther King, Jr. is garnering criticism for its unusual depiction of the late Civil...

This Is Not the Real Geronimo

Aug 19, 2025

Elbridge Ayer Burbank, “Geronimo” (1897), oil on canvas (image no copyright – United States, via the Newberry Library) Editor’s Note: The following text has been excerpted with permission and adapted from Speculative Relations: Indigenous...

Sub-versive DC Protester Becomes Memeorable

Aug 19, 2025

Top: Mural at Dupont Circle North Metro Station in Washington, DC, pays homage to the man who threw a subway at an ICE agent (photo courtesy Ian Livinsgton); bottom: Stills from an FBI video of Sean Charles Dunn flinging the sub (via X, all screenshots Hyperallergic)...