The Renaissance master was boundlessly ambitious and intimidatingly energetic, charming, good-looking, diplomatic, and utterly opportunistic.
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White Boys and Divine Animals Bound Cleverly Together
Zadie Xa’s quilted textiles and Hernan Bas’s paintings of adolescent men enjoy a surprising but generative dialogue at San Francisco’s Jessica Silverman gallery.
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Inside the Wondrous Studios of Three Pakistani Artists
Contemporary artist studios in Karachi prioritize pragmatism; many resist a traditional understanding of spaces with singular purposes.
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Reviving the Lost Craft of Jewish Papercuts
Anna Kronick is one of very few Judaic paper cutters practicing today, with a highly contemporary body of work that breathes new life into the sacred tradition.
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The Pioneering Feminists of French Art
Pioneers at Paris’s Musée du Luxembourg places a particular emphasis on women artists who challenged and subverted conventional norms of gender presentation, sexuality, motherhood, and race.
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Tanoa Sasraku’s Enigmatic “Earth Photos”
In finding new ways to read and map landscapes, Tanoa Sasraku disrupts our expectations of the rural and opens up latent memories, mythologies, and energies.
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How a Group of Navajo Teens Promoted a Re-Telling of History
Decades later, a letter written by the group has resulted in a permanent exhibition at Bosque Redondo Memorial in New Mexico.
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Transforming Society Through Play
Assembly Required suggests it is high time to strap on a colorful mask and play with someone you don’t know — or don’t know well enough.
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Using Her Mouth and Feet, Lorenza Böttner Created an Immense Body of Work
A childhood accident took her arms away but the transgender artist survived to create paintings, photography, and performances focused on depicting the body.
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Required Reading
This week, another reason to leave Facebook, who really invented democracy, and what is “Skimpflation”?
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Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for July 2022
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including Pope.L, Beatriz Cortez, Mika Rottenberg, and more.
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Raven Chacon, Loud and Clear
The acclaimed composer and noise artist talks to Hyperallergic about his Pulitzer Prize-winning composition “Voiceless Mass.”