Two Yale alumnae Okwui Okpokwasili BA ’96 and Ana Benaroya MFA ’19 were recently featured in New York Magazine’s Approval Matrix. The Approval Matrix is a bi-weekly guide the magazine creates to what they consider “highbrow, lowbrow, despicable, and brilliant.” Both Okpokwasili and Benaroya were featured in the guide’s brilliant highbrow section. Benaroya was featured for her “can’t-look-away paintings at …

Justine Kurland MFA ’98 was recently interviewed by The Guardian about her new book, SCUMB Manifesto, a collection of collaged images from renowned books by white male photographers. The project, Kurland notes, is inspired by Valeria Solanas’s SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto. The acronym for Kurland’s project is the same, with the addition of “B” which stands for …