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Required Reading
This week, a floating village in New York, the Black Space Manifesto, Greg Tate's criticism, Anish Kapoor's terrible Brexit art, and more.
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Finding Intimacy in the Immensity of Infinity
In Intimate Immensity at PAFA, touch, materiality, the sensual, and the subversive are part of a feminist lineage.
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When Capri Was the Place to Be
Jamie James gives a full, intriguing, detailed history of the island's visitors and expats, a wild panoply of writers, artists, rogues, madmen and madwomen, and thieves.
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Paintings About Change, Not Perfection
Sanford Wurmfeld’s magic is partially the result of a mistake he made in 1985.
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Thoughts on the Mueller Report
What a surprise.
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Japan’s Radical Conceptual Art of the 1960s
An exhibition at Japan Society makes room in the modernist canon for the heady, playful ideas of free-thinking renegades.
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Expressions of the Fullness of Being
In Natvar Bhavsar's art, all is in flux; everything is both what it is and all that it might become.
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The Colors of the Sixties
Spilling Over: Painting in the 1960s at the Whitney Museum expands the common understanding of a pivot point in American art, while basking unapologetically in the pure pleasure of looking.
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"The Institution Should Not Be Safe As Long As We Are Not Safe": A Third Week of Protests at the Whitney
One activist called the protest an opportunity for museumgoers to consider "the role that our cultural institutions play in our everyday decisions and choices, and the effect that that has.”
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Whitney Biennial Participants Discuss the Use of Safariland Weapons in Gaza
Images emerging from a rally at the Gaza-Israeli border today suggest that the Israeli military fired sponge round projectiles produced by the Safariland Group, a company owned by the Whitney Museum’s Vice Chairman.
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Over 120 Prominent Scholars and Critics Demand Removal of Whitney Museum Vice-Chair
In a public letter released today, a group of theorists, critics, and scholars joins activists and members of the Whitney staff in the demand to remove Warren B. Kanders from his position as vice-chairman of the museum's board of trustees.
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Photographers Working with Opposing Visions, from Holographs to Cyanotypes
A diverse range of unusually young photographers are reflecting on the reality of creating images in a world of extremes.