The new Lucas Museum of Storytelling in LA, designed by MAD Architects, features futuristic architecture and iconic Star Wars artifacts. Opening soon with immersive exhibits, it explores narrative art from ancient times to modern cinema.
Martha Wells's Murderbot series explores AI, identity, and indifference through a SecUnit's darkly comic perspective. The TV adaptation and Wells's influences from sci-fi literature are discussed.
Hauser & Wirth also had strong opening day sales, selling more than a dozen pieces, including a landscape painting so geometric as to almost feel hallucinatory by Jeffrey Gibson for $100,000 and the 38-year-old artist Avery Singer’s Poker Players (study) for $575,000.
President Joe Biden recently announced the establishment of a new national monument acknowledging the history of the residential school system, which oppressed thousands of Indigenous children and their families during the course of more than 150 years.
