This list barely scratches the surface of the city’s artistic offerings this year, from overdue retrospectives to surprising sides of artists we know well.
December 27, 2016
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The Snapshots of a Globe-trotting Geographer Before Globalization
The UC Berkeley Department of Geography joined Flickr Commons and shared transfixing photographs from a world-traveling scientist.
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Oskar Schlemmer’s Prophetic, Dancing Robots
An exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz highlights the German artist’s paintings, drawings, choreography, and costume designs that imagine the integration of humans and machines.
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Conjuring an Afrofuturist Classroom with Paint and Chalk
Nyame Brown has transformed the Museum of the African Diaspora into the time machine that a museum should be.
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When Two Drunk Artists Fought in the 18th Century
What could be more absurd than two artists fighting over the personification of temperance?
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That Nebulous Time of Year
Now that one holiday is done, we’re in the stretch til the new year.
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3D-Printing an Army of Forgotten Goddesses to Fight Colonialism
Morehshin Allahyari is developing a series of a dozen 3D-printed statues based on ancient images of forgotten, proto-feminist deities.
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A Chronicler of Philadelphia’s 20th-Century Black Life
Between the 1930s and ’60s, John W. Mosley made photographs without any expectation that white people would see them. His intended audience was black.
