This year’s edition will highlight contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora through both an online platform and an in-person exhibition.
Category: Art
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For All the Queer Habibis Out There
Curated by the Earl of Bushwick, Queer-y-ing the Arab focuses on the bedroom and private realm.
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“Made in LA” Mines the Necessary Performance of Everyday Life
Performance has always been essential as a means of survival to participate in the fiction of America.
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“The Bomb” Reimagines Discussions Around Nuclear Weapons
Filmmakers Smriti Keshari and Eric Schlosser call into question the very notions of “control” or “safety” when it comes to nuclear devices.
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Breathtaking Black-and-White Photos of LA’s Subway System
What began as a one-day project for Ken Karagozian transformed into a 30-year one.
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Deborah Remington’s Singular Place in Art
By employing a slow, deliberate process in which control is paramount, Remington shaped her passage in time.
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Photographs That Bring the Past Into the Present
By constructing a highly detailed world based on historical events, Jasper de Biejer gives himself permission to ponder the past.
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Artworks Orbiting the Thinking of Hannah Arendt
Eight shows over the course of a year loosely explore the eight chapters of Arendt’s 1968 book, Between Past and Future.”
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Required Reading
This week, the anthropological use and abuse of human remains, rest and liberation, the cult of Trump, the cicada invasion, the first frozen margarita machine, and more.
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Bisa Butler’s Worlds in Cut Cloth
Birds and airplanes soar, horses gallop, purples meet yellows, cerulean blues tango with magenta in geometric patterns, foliate designs crash into damask.
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Richard Mosse’s Photos Exoticize Disaster
Employing drones, Mosse creates psychedelic aerial maps of ecological degradation.
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Meh, Frieze Is Back
Mixed feelings aside, we can all agree on one thing: it was better than an online viewing room.