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Nao Bustamante Redesigns a Common Gynecological Tool
Nao Bustamante has been thinking of ways to make the speculum less unpleasant for the millions of patients who encounter it each year.
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What Does It Mean to Create Afrofuturistic Art?
In this apocalyptic future that Sedrick Chisom so vividly builds, all people of color have left Earth.
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A Tour Through Tashkent’s Art-Filled Subway
Ballroom chandeliers, vast mosaics, and wood carvings await curious commuters.
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Uncanny Images of Iran’s Windswept Coasts
Hoda Afshar’s images capture craggy, Martian-red rock formations and poetic moments of communion between individuals and landscapes.
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Kiki Kogelnik, a Pop Artist With a Feminist Bent
Though created nearly 60 years ago, her artworks feel exuberantly contemporary.
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Two Forms of Sculptural Ingenuity
For Eduardo Chillida, a work was a finished thing. Gustav Metzger, on the other hand, would make works that sometimes existed in a state of perpetual evolution.
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Brenda Goodman’s Abstraction and Pain
In her art, Goodman seems to both revisit trauma and heal it. The results are moving and painful.
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Required Reading
This week, illegal COVID-19 boosters, the joys of flossing, a nonbinary medieval warrior, DIY cocktails in the Bay Area, and more.
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The Willful Jouissance of Hannah Wilke
Wilke’s joyful effusions were a reminder of the limitlessness of the body’s creative potential.
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Is It Fair to Call Louise Bourgeois "Freud's Daughter"?
It's a good bet that being called his daughter would have made Bourgeois hopping mad.
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Hugh Hayden Confronts the Black American Dream
Hugh Hayden’s works combine elements of spaces in which Black Americans gather, heal, and memorialize.
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Ancient Greece and Rome Are Hot in Animation Right Now. Here’s Why.
Animation allows for creators to push the envelope in depictions of sex, violence, and other themes central to myth and history.