The new generation of artists and curators is eager to explore alternative organizations and to tackle current social inequalities and issues.
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Model, Rebel, and Painter, Suzanne Valadon Defied the Odds
Her female nudes were extraordinary for the time because she portrayed female sexual desire. Her subjects defied conventional ideals of femininity.
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Artist Sam Francis Gets His First Comprehensive Biography
Francis made over 10,000 artworks, starred in more than 100 solo exhibitions, and, in the late 1950s to mid-1960s, commanded the highest prices of any living painter.
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A Psychedelic History of Mushrooms as Medicine
Brian Blomerth’s Mycelium Wassonii deploys amazing graphic storytelling to share his own exploration of mushroom history
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What Frank Lloyd Wright Can Teach Us about Comfort in the Office
Over a century after Wright designed a workplace that borrowed features from the home, designers are at it again, but who does a homey office really serve?
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Research Confirms Norse Vikings Arrived in Americas 1,000 Years Ago
Archeologists can now prove the Vikings made landfall in the Americas hundreds of years before Columbus reached the Bahamas.
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Required Reading
This week, the National Gallery of Art finally acquired a major work by Faith Ringgold, the director of The Velvet Underground talks film, North America’s Hindu Nationalist problem, canceling legacy admissions, and more.
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Día de los Muertos Comes to NYC With a Dazzling Display of Mexican Folk Art
Sculptures of Oaxacan alebrijes, envisioned as guardians of the nation’s immigrant community, and catrinas, Day of the Dead skeletons, are now at Rockefeller Center.
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Parsons School of Design Presents the MFA Fine Arts Class of 2021 Thesis Exhibition
No Vacancy, curated by Jody Graf, will be on view from October 26 through November 8 at the school’s Kellen Gallery in New York City.
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Washington University’s MFA in Visual Art Is Made for Renegades
Prospective students: attend the Virtual Open House on November 8 to learn more about the Sam Fox School’s MFA-VA program.
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Beer With a Painter: Janice Nowinski
“I am trying to keep the immediacy of my emotional experience while I’m painting.”
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The Cerebral Art of Wrestling
Wrestling is less a physical act than a psychological space in Mark Yang’s paintings.