The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is an objectively strange place for an art exhibit. The building, more bunker than gallery, is a dense centralized archive of plastinated, taxidermied and otherwise preserved specimens kept in ordered black shelving units whose drawers are mostly locked.
Even though I knew Lungs of the Earth was going to be a sound-based exhibit, I was still surprised when I walked into Loeb Studio. There was nothing on the walls, and for a while I just stood by the door peering around for something to look at.
Anna Pontin argues that the source of stagnation between UBC administrators and Palestinian solidarity protesters is the university's failure to acknowledge that protesters initiated conversations months before the encampment even began.
Jia Tolentino knows exactly why everyone is so obsessed with Succession.