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A New Book on Niki de Saint Phalle Presents the Artist In Her Own Words
A new book on the artist features selections from Saint Phalle’s prints, doodles, letters, and diaries, arranged in roughly chronological order.
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How Can Museums Break Away From White Privilege?
Following cogent survey of the modern art museum’s history, The Art Museum in Modern Times turns to a challenging discussion of the present problems of modern museums.
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When the Ancient Greeks Go Rogue
David Hadbawnik and Anne Carson aren’t aiming to produce new schoolroom translations of the classics; they’ve reimagined these ancient texts in the light of our violent and chaotic contemporaneity.
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What Did the Onset of the Age of the Mass Shooting Mean to Americans?
Colette Brooks demonstrates how history unites us in both our private and public lives.
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Fun Facts and Unexpected Stories About Artists and the Art World
Did you know Maurizio Cattelan has worked as a morgue assistant, or that Annie Leibovitz created an album cover for Cyndi Lauper?
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Searching for a More Inclusive History of Ornament
While the ancient art form of ornament often contains deep meaning, European modernist theory attempted to erase ornament from the design world.
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Caio Fernando Abreu’s Short Stories Charm with Questions of Life and Love
Moldy Strawberries is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking, vaulting existential questions across the page while poking fun at the urge to ask them in the first place.
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Images of When the USSR Was an “Ally of Black Liberation Causes”
Most of the media was created to disseminate Communist principles, particularly anti-racism and anti-colonialism.
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Crafting a Future Is a Clarion Call to Support Indigenous Arts
Today, India’s handwoven and hand-spun fabrics and master artisans find themselves at existential crossroads, facing threats of obsolescence and urbanization.
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How Painter-Architects Brought Built Spaces to Life
Architectural drawings were limited to mostly monochrome in Europe until color appeared in the 17th century.
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Édouard Glissant Sought to Undermine the European Ideological Underpinnings of Colonization
In conversations with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Glissant proposed an Art Museum of the Americas.