Required Reading

This week: The Bushwick aesthetic goes global, common misconceptions about the Palestinian keffiyeh, Edna Mode is brat, and who can really walk on water?

Erika Harrsch Has Always Been Political

The artist’s continued retrofitting of ideas has led to a body of work that feels sustained, powerful, and continually defiant of categorization.

How Commercial Photography Sold Modernism

The Real Thing at the Met Museum shows that the advertising tactics of commercial studios were in dialogue with avant-garde art in the 1920 and ’30s.

Fritz Scholder’s Art of Non-Belonging

Scholder, who called himself a “non-Indian Indian,” refused to conform to expectations and rejected limiting definitions of his identity as Native American.

The Art of Touch

An exhibition explores touch, from the possessive love of a mother holding her child to the violent and coercive contact that sometimes takes place between strangers.

A View From the Easel

“Having more light and space immediately allowed me to make larger work, which I didn’t even know I had in me.”

Required Reading

This week, Abercrombie’s comeback, Marvel Cinematic Universe’s downfall, Moby Dick emojis, “survivor” trinkets at the Titanic Museum’s gift shop, and more.