Betty Tompkins Overlays Women’s Bodies With #MeToo Testimonies

Good morning. 🌤️ Today, Williamsburg gets its first Hasidic art gallery, a look at how the Venice Bi

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Good morning. 🌤️ Today, Williamsburg gets its first Hasidic art gallery, a look at how the Venice Biennale makes the life of working Venetians harder, and considering Betty Tompkins’s powerful #MeToo series on display in LA.— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Artist Betty Tompkins Overlays Women’s Bodies With #MeToo Testimonies Tompkins unflinchingly looks at how female bodies are displayed, disciplined, and offered up to men. Anya Ventura

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Exploring Fraught Histories at the Liverpool Biennial Particularly well incorporated into the city’s everyday, the biennial’s latest edition attempts to grapple with Liverpool’s colonial past. Aurella Yussuf

In Tragic Jungle, the "Heart of Darkness" Fights Back Yulene Olaizola’s film tries to subvert the tropes of colonialist art about the Central American wilderness. Alonso Aguilar

Williamsburg Gets Its First Hasidic Art Gallery The lively opening of Shtetl Gallery signals shifting perceptions around Hasidic art in the local community. Hakim Bishara

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