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The Unlikely Muse of Soil
The earth itself is fertile artistic ground at Somerset House — but the exhibition stops short of getting visitors’ hands dirty, even in imagination.
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How Do We Know We’re Looking at the Same Painting?
More than an overarching narrative, Gregg Bordowitz is invested in what it means to observe art together and share an emotion with another person.
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The Plight of Artsakh's Artists in Exile
“Sometimes I want to recreate the paintings I left behind,” said Artsiv Lalayan, one of tens of thousands of Armenians displaced by Azerbaijan, “but it’s impossible to recreate what you’ve lost.”
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Miami Beach Cinema Targeted by Mayor Speaks Out: “We Don’t Want To Leave”
The city is threatening to close O Cinema after it refused to cancel screenings of No Other Land, the Oscar-winning film about Israel’s displacement of Palestinians.
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Tate Museums Cut Staff by 7%, Citing Post-Pandemic Deficit
Dozens of roles have reportedly been impacted by the cutbacks, made through voluntary exits and hiring freezes.
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Trump Pushes Out First Native Chair of National Endowment for the Humanities
Shelly C. Lowe has left her position at the NEH “at the direction of President Trump,” the agency said.
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Getty Acquires Raymond Pettibon Archive
The trove comprises drawings, notes, concert flyers, prints, zines, skateboards, and a surfboard, filling 28 boxes, as well as paints and materials related to the artist’s process.
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SFMOMA Gets $1.5M From Google for Ruth Asawa Exhibition
It’s the largest corporate donation the museum has ever received for a single show in its history.
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From the Fire’s Remains, Kelly Akashi Sculpts Possibility
In the aftermath of tragedy, Akashi shows us the importance of the ability to imagine and create new structures, to see the potential futures in a seed.
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Diedrick Brackens Unravels and Re-Weaves Histories
In his first exhibition in the United Kingdom, the artist creates large-scale tapestries that draw upon the brutal racialized history of cotton.
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How Spielberg Helped Me Understand My Family’s Holocaust Story
My young mind couldn’t fully comprehend what my grandparents endured, but I grasped what I could through the existing reference points of his characters.
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Required Reading
This week: Isabella Hammad on Etel Adnan, a mural for Emily Pike, the problem with mainstream film, experimental ASMR, legalizing bodega cats, and much more.