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Two Queer Artists Recreate San Francisco’s Shuttered Dyke Bars
To Know Herself at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts honors these bars as spaces in which community connections start, and where love grows.
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A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in California, Massachusetts, New York, and Oregon.
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After an International Tour, Su-Mei Tse . Nested Arrives at Taipei Fine Arts Museum
This exhibition explores the contemplation of time, identity, memory, music and language. On view April 20–July 21.
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How Artists of the French Revolution Embraced Neoclassical Revivalism
Revolutionary Generation: French Drawings (1770-1815) from the Fabre Museum illustrates how, as the Rococo movement went out of fashion, France’s insurrectionist artists drew on ancient Greek and Roman art for inspiration.
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Week in Review: Isamu Noguchi's Studio Will Open to the Public, Cuban Artists Arrested
Also, Hito Steyerl addresses the Sackler family controversy and opioid epidemic, 30,000 imperial objects were found underneath a zoo in Rio de Janeiro, and more.
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Tenement Museum Workers Vote to Unionize
The workers report low wages, scarce benefits, and unstable working conditions, calling the conditions unfitting of a museum that was founded to celebrate the labor struggles of immigrant families.
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A New, Highly Eclectic Space for Arthouse Films in Los Angeles
The Now Instant Image Hall is already carving out an identity for itself as a venue for artists no one else in the city will show.
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LACMA Acquires Eight New Works, and Harvard Museums Receive 70 Otto Piene Sketchbooks
Plus, George Condo and Giorgio de Chirico sell at auction.
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Painting 250 Years of Racial Violence in the Americas
In his brightly-colored acrylic works, Haitian-born, Philadelphia-based artist Claes Gabriel addresses the Haitian Revolution, global migration, and police brutality in the US.
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Sewing a Pillow for Every Bed Occupied at US Detention Facilities
The “34,000 Pillows Project” began in 2009, when the Detention Bed Mandate required ICE to occupy an average of 34,000 beds every night across 250 detention facilities nationwide.
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A Photographer Retraces the Underground Railroad's Secret Routes
Midwestern artist Jeanine Michna-Bales’ latest photo series, Through Darkness to Light, is the result of 14 years of research and 1,400 miles of travel along former routes of the Underground Railroad.
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The Lives of Female Art Historical Figures Will Now Be Transcribed and Available Online
A crowdsourced transcription project hopes to make the lives of women artists, art historians, art dealers, and gallery owners easier to keyword search and read.