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Tain amateur photographer scoops two awards at local camera club’s monthly competition.

Interest in Vladimir Sorokin’s works in translation tends to focus on their extremism and dystopia – trademarks of his fantastically-rendered observations of the Soviet Union and contemporary Russia under an infinite bureaucracy. Less emphasis is placed on the empathy that elevates the stories from violence and a pre-occupation with bodily fluids to a discomforting sense

Abbott Defies SCOTUS: After a U.S. Supreme Court ruling to stop Texas from blocking Border Patrol agents from reaching the river in Eagle P

Books 19 Art Books That Spoke Volumes in 2023 Great art novels and art-history tomes, as lovingly selected by the Artnet News staff. ...

No better time than the holiday season to catch up on your art reading. Here, a sampling of books published in the last year.

While many of our readers may be out of town for the holidays, we’ve still got plenty of local arts and nightlife events. Unwrap Going Out, our weekly listings, online this and every week.

Director of photography on Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, John Akomfrah’s documentary Seven Songs for Malcolm X and Spike Lee’s Crooklyn, Arthur Jafa has crafted an oeuvre that also encompasses music, philosophy and science-fiction art. He had a wide-ranging conversation with Black Film Bulletin co-founder June Givanni in London in February 1993, excerpts from which are reproduced here.

The Library of Congress has announced the 2023 additions to the National Film Registry including Terminator 2, Home Alone and others.

Home Alone, the Terminator, and Jack Skelington in the Library of Congress

Every year, the Librarian of Congress selects 25 movies to be added to the National Film Registry. This year, the list included Home Alone and The Nightmare Before Christmas.