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Donald Rodney Drew Upon His Sickness to Illuminate Society’s Ills
An exhibition brings together all of the artist’s surviving work, demonstrating the many ways he incorporated aspects of his illness into his practice.
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Gavin Jantjes’s Soft Songs From Exile
Since being forced to leave South Africa for critiquing Apartheid, the artist has worked from afar to shed light on Black struggles for equality.
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Tavares Strachan Complicates What It Means to Be a “Pioneer”
The artist tells the stories of unsung people of color who played key roles in crucial events of Euro-American culture, including exploitative and colonialist endeavors.
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What Adults Can Learn From Children’s Games
In his latest exhibition, artist Francis Alÿs points to the powerful potential of play to bring people together.
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Unearthing the Land’s Buried Stories at the Venice Biennale
Artists at the Irish, Hãhãwpuá, Portuguese, and Dutch pavilions are exploring notions of land and rematriation — often by bringing soil itself into the gallery space.
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Ecological Crisis Echoes Through the Church of San Lorenzo
Restor(y)ing Oceania provides a powerful sense of the devastation faced by Pacific Islanders — and the ecosystems that may soon be lost.
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Woody De Othello Combines Sublimation and Supplication
The artist evokes a strong religious sensibility in his hybrid sculptures tempered by a welcome sense of humor.
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Two Lesbian Lovers’ Elaborate Art Hoax
Artworks will be attributed to both Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece for the first time in a new exhibition.
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A Sámi Artist’s Call for Ancestral Return
Outi Pieski disrupts colonial narratives to instead embody the deep relationship between a landscape and its people.
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Can We Survive Without Reconnecting to the Earth?
Acts of Gathering challenges the disconnection between humans and the rhythms of the earth, interrogating the nature of food culture in a rapidly changing world.
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Elias Sime Brings Out the Beauty in E-Waste
He seeks to make visible the vast scale of the waste produced by digital technologies, which are also reaching obsolescence with increasing rapidity.
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Monica Sjöö’s Radical Feminist Goddesses
Her paintings were attempts to channel the Great Mother Goddess, manifested through composite landscapes made up of sacred sites and symbols.