After 20 long years of delays and allegations of abuse against migrant workers, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi has finally announced an opening date: December 11. Yay? Across the world, another major museum is just gearing up its labor battle. Unionized workers at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s East Storehouse location voted unanimously to strike, alleging insufficient time to use the toilet or drink water. All the world’s an Amazon warehouse, it seems.
But not everything trends toward shit. Sometimes the reverse takes its course — as a former military settlement-turned-artist settlement in Taipei shows us. May we all head that way.
Tucked away in a small forested area on the banks of the Xindian River in Taipei City lies the Treasure Hill Artist Village. Founded by retreating soldiers in the 1940s, the former anti-aircraft base turned squatter settlement has been through a number of reincarnations. Its latest form, launched in 2010, is as a so-called “living history,” where the descendants of its original inhabitants live side by side with artists in residence. | Andrew Nachemson
A new documentary follows the work of activist and photographer Misan Harriman, but risks overly aestheticizing the movements he captures. | Eileen G'Sell
Slide through a teddy bear, get weird with a neural network’s hallucinations, play ping-pong on an artist-made table, and so much more.
Connor Czora mines the history of porcelain ceramics while teaching the next generation of potters in DC.
Writer Tembe Denton-Hurst argues that this wearable art form isn’t just an extension of our fingertips, but also an extension of ourselves. | Rhea Nayyar
