“If you’re going to do art history,” Steinberg declared, “you’d better know what your artists were looking at. And that has to include prints.”
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Required Reading
This week, a newly uncovered Aztec sculpture, hi-res images of the Raphael Cartoons and the Bayeux Tapestry, COVID in Yemen, comedy’s alt-right problem, and more.
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Alix Bailey’s Unfashionable Pursuit
Painting, as a verb, is a way of living in time, of inhabiting a state of solitude, even when you are with other people.
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The Commanding, Flamboyant Joyce Pensato
Pensato favored pop culture flotsam marred by the real world, which she transmuted into adventurous artworks dealing with raw, real world concerns.
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Dante: Our Medieval Contemporary
Why is Dante the Florentine still present with us 700 years after his death?
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Cupid Shoots Through Millennia of Art
The god of love and desire has fascinated and inspired artists since antiquity.
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Ariel René Jackson on the “Detective Work” of Telling Truthful Stories
“We need to keep reassessing where we get our data from to understand how the narrative is shaped. And how it shapes us,” says Jackson.
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A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine
This week, artists reflect on quarantining from their studios in San Diego, Milwaukee, and Chicago.
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Behind the Mask: Photographers Reflect on Black Vulnerability
We Wear the Mask treads a fine line between opacity and revealing truth in its rawest form.
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For Sky Hopinka, Wandering Is Both a Mode of Moving and Making
Centers of Somewhere proposes an understanding of Indigeneity that is hybrid, fluctuating, and always in transit.
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A Tarot Deck Offers Spiritual Solace to Scholars
The Fool becomes the Grad Student. The Magician becomes the President. The High Priestess becomes the Archivist.
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Let Go in This Anonymous Musical Improv Session
With no musical experience or physical instruments required, “The Adjacent Possible” invites you to a blissful 45-minute session.