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# Artist Talks in Times of Fascism
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/artist-talks-in-times-of-fascism/
- Published: 2025-04-29T20:17:28.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:46:23.000Z
- Description: Laylah Ali, whose drawing survey is on view at UMass Amherst, has a knack for addressing what artists stay silent about.
- Author: Jesse Lambert
- Tags: Comics, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025)

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Color drawing by Laylah Ali, "Untitled (Superman)" (2000), colored pencil on paper (image courtesy the artist)

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[Is anything the matter?](https://fac.umass.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=ali2425&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context%5Fid=&ref=hyperallergic.com) *continues at the University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst (151 Presidents Drive, Amherst, Massachusetts) through May 9\. The exhibition will continue at the Colby College Museum of Art (5600 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, Maine) from October 21 through April 19, 2026.*