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TALA MADANI’S paintings, drawings, and stop-motion animations of violent men, sadistic babies, and filth-covered moms plumb our most savage depths. To mark the artist’s first institutional survey, now on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, critic Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer weighs in on the surprising “cheerful air” and “basic beauty” that underpin the LA-based artist’s deliriously perverted tableaux.IT STARTS PLAYFULLY with a cake in the face. Ha ha. Just a joke. Right? Birthday candles burn in eye sockets, confections rise vertically like giant phalluses or balance ...

Typhone and Echidna are two lesser-known Greek gods, but together they parented their own pantheon of monsters.

Science SARU and Dai Sato's reimagining of the classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is closer to the original story beats than it appears, while also asking viewers to discern what's real and what's imaginary.

Io was a naiad, a water nymph, in Greek mythology. She is famous for being a lover of Zeus; a lover who was persecuted by Hera, resulting in Io wandering the earth in the form of a cow.

Who Owns Our Data? from Boston Review. We need a model of ownership that recognizes the collective interest we have in how personal data is used, avoids the costs of private exploitation by individual firms, and does not slip into authoritarian forms of state control.