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Closing Out a Month of Black Art in the Heart of Brooklyn
Continuing through February 28, Black Artstory Month brings exhibitions, murals, performances, film screenings, and more to a stretch of Myrtle Avenue.
Jillian Steinhauer
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The Troubling Delight of Feminine Monsters
Bonnie Lucas's exhibition at JTT features surreal gouaches and playful assemblages that mess with the social conventions of girl- and womanhood.
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A Group Gathers to Figure Out How to Get Artists Paid
On February 20, the Get Artists Paid alliance will meet in person for the first time, at Silent Barn, to discuss the lack of compensation for creators.
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Right-wing Cartoonist Inserts Betsy DeVos into Iconic Civil Rights Painting
Glenn McCoy appropriated Norman Rockwell's "The Problem We All Live With," replacing the six-year-old black girl who desegregated a public school with the billionaire Secretary of Education.
In Brief
Masked Men Destroy Exhibition at Kiev Art Space
On February 7, men wearing balaclavas stormed into the Visual Culture Research Center and destroyed an exhibition of work about the Maidan Revolution by artist Davyd Chychkan.
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A Lecture for the End of the World at Postmasters Gallery
On February 12, artist Molly Crabapple will deliver a "lecture for the end of the world" by the pseudonymous philosopher Fuck Theory at Postmasters Gallery.
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How Mierle Laderman Ukeles Turned Maintenance Work into Art
Best known as the artist in residence at New York City’s Department of Sanitation, the septuagenarian Ukeles is having her first full retrospective, at the Queens Museum.
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A Play Gives Voice to the "Hottentot Venus"
Running at the Tank through February 12, Hottentotted pays tribute to Saartjie Baartman and the exploitation she endured.
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#HyperPicks: Gender Fluidity and Feminism
Opening at the 8th Floor, The Intersectional Self considers how an awareness of fluid identities has affected our traditional understanding of gender roles.
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#HyperPicks: A Cabaret for the Bees
To close out its exhibition Nectar: War Upon the Bees, Pratt Manhattan Gallery hosts a lecture by Dr. Rachael Winfree and an "eco-political cabaret" by performance group the Buzz.
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#HyperPicks: Curating Black Art into the Canon
On February 7, art historian Kellie Jones will be in conversation with blogger Kimberly Drew at Brooklyn Historical Society.
In Brief
NYC's Security Estimate for the Trumps Is More Than Double the NEA’s Budget
The current NEA budget is $148 million. A report estimates that one year's worth of security for the Trumps in NYC will cost $365 million. That's a 146.6% increase.