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The artist Matilde Duarte has gathered hundreds of Tinder portraits that confirm that when trying to find love and stand out from the rest, the app’s users are resorting to looking as similar as possible to everyone else

Since 2020, the Mellon Foundation has given over $40 million to arts and humanities projects addressing mass incarceration. In all, it says, it will donate $125 million to such efforts.

Since 2020, the Mellon Foundation has given over $40 million to arts and humanities projects addressing mass incarceration. In all, it says, it will donate $125 million to such efforts.

Rising from the depths of all great American cities, are the skyscrapers and tower blocks that have become solid icons of the modern metropolis. For over forty years, Arizona-based photographer William W. Fuller has been using his lens as a way to navigate the urban jungle and to study the architectural landscapes of America. Having driven across the States dozens of times in his car, Fuller has visited many of America’s major cities, including: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, ...

For Fleetwood, who was named a 2021 MacArthur fellow, the project was originally a way to reflect on her family’s legacy and what she could do to highlight what she considers a great injustice to her community.

Contexts by Mounira M. Charrad, Amina Zarrugh, and Hyun Jeong Ha | April 6, 2021 | Winter 2021 A Boy Confronts Egyptian Military Police South of Tahrir Square. Photo by Alisdare Hickson via Flickr, CC. Ten years after shaking an entire world region, the protests of the Arab Spring of 2011 continue to preoccupy social scientists who rely mostly on documents and interviews to study them. Employing a different approach, we ex...

Featured in What an Abolitionist Exhibition Looks Like in a Carceral World At MoMA PS1, New York, Nicole R. Fleetwood curates a show that considers the artistic output of those irrevocably shaped by the conditions of the prison industrial complex ‘Mass incarceration’, a phrase that has gained much purchase in the last two decades, features prominently in the title of ‘Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration’, an exhibition at New York’s MoMA PS1 and a book...