Historic student protests in solidarity with the bombarded and starved people of Gaza have spread like wildfire across the United States this week. It all began at New York’s Columbia University, where tensions are about to reach a boiling point. Columbia journalism student and photographer Mukta Joshi brought us images and voices from the ground.

Meanwhile, the Venice Biennale has opened to the public. Read our contributors’ impressions from the exhibition and take a look at photos from Jeffrey Gibson’s kaleidoscopic US pavilion.

In our Opinion section, Elena Kanagy-Loux calls for more serious institutional treatment of “grandma” textile traditions, while curator Anna Sew Hoy responds to criticism on this publication related to her show Scratching at the Moon at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

There’s a lot more, including Jesse Lambert’s moving comic piece on Arshile Gorky, published on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

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Even the world's most proliferated images appear novel when they're blown up on glossy paper at the Photography Show presented by AIPAD.

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A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society traces the city’s history through its long-forgotten monuments.

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