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Joined February 2025
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Aleshea Harris transformed her 2018 play into a brutal, operatic film by doing everything she couldn’t on stage. totei.com/story/aleshea-harr…
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To make music, duendita relies on tools that keep her mobile, caffeinated, and in tune with the world around her. These are her essentials: totei.com/toolbox/duendita?u…
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Every week we round up exhibitions, films, albums, and other happenings in the art world that you should know about. Here are this week’s picks: totei.com/collected/11-5-col…
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“Maybe it’s not about the generative process; it’s about the experience of the process. I like to think I’m making geoglyphs, too.”—Sarah Zapata totei.com/story/sarah-zapata…
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Aleshea Harris walked us through five scenes from her new film "Is God Is" that tap into essential elements of filmmaking: finding the aesthetic, manipulating the viewer’s perspective, and nailing the climactic fight scenes totei.com/story/aleshea-harr…
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“You can equate the immigrant presence to the presence of those fences in the grand scheme [of things]. And how people react to it—is it related to how people react to immigrants’ presence in general?”—Han Seungmin totei.com/story/han-seungmin…
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Rashid Johnson, whose new exhibition “Birthday Boys” opens at @HauserWirth in New York today, is one of the most influential American artists of this century. Earlier this year, he spoke with us about the tools that are essential to his art. totei.com/toolbox/rashid-joh…
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The AI art debate is stuck on optimists vs doomers. @hollyherndon and @trevorpaglen reject the frame, build their own models, and think good-or-bad misses the point. The most interesting bits from their conversation with @readmaxread: totei.com/story/trevor-pagle…
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.@trevorpaglen's real question isn't about copyright. It's about money. "Why does Sam Altman get all the money? Why does Elon Musk get all the money?" totei.com/story/trevor-pagle…
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Last, @trevorpaglen says he's done with photography entirely. "Photographs don't mean what they used to mean." Full conversation with @readmaxread: totei.com/story/trevor-pagle…
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.@trevorpaglen's real question isn't about copyright. It's about money. "Why does Sam Altman get all the money? Why does Elon Musk get all the money?" totei.com/story/trevor-pagle…
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Last, @trevorpaglen says he's done with photography entirely. "Photographs don't mean what they used to mean." Full conversation with @readmaxread: totei.com/story/trevor-pagle…
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