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Tate Britain Hangs a Diverse Display of Women Artists Out of Its Permanent Collection
The collection of 60 women artists from Tate's permanent collection, on view through April 2020, tackles the tricky terrain of museum representation.
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Queer Artists in Their Own Words: Damien Davis Likes Science Fiction and Decoding Black Symbolism
LGBTQ Pride Month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer artist and letting them speak for themselves.
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Queer Artists in Their Own Words: Yolande Armstrong Started Painting After 40 Years
LGBTQ Pride Month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer artist and letting them speak for themselves.
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Required Reading
This week, the fall out from When They See Us, selfies at Chernobyl, the Universal Music fire disaster, Trump doesn't read, the rot in US corporate media, and more.
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The Poetic Vinyl of Susan Howe and Nathaniel Mackey
Curated by Shannon Ebner, this LP combines recordings of poems as well as archival material from 1991 through 2018.
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A Poet Yearning for Knowledge
Ron Padgett’s poems make me gnash my teeth.
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Mosaics of Motherboards, Keyboards, and Wire
Ethiopian artist Elias Sime makes wall sculptures from castoff computer parts that evoke the toxic dumping of these materials around the world.
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Queer Artists in Their Own Words: Rebekah Frank Found Community Through Blacksmith Workshops and Leather Bars
LGBTQ Pride Month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer artist and letting them speak for themselves.
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The Southern Gothic Moods of Allison Janae Hamilton
Hamilton’s immersive installation allows visitors to wrestle with a mysterious land, its racial realities, and its mythic past.
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Ragnar Kjartansson’s Panorama of Love and Death
The artist’s Death Is Elsewhere conveys an understanding that humans — relatively recent additions to a 4.5-billion-year-old planet — will come and go. The planet will remain.
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Marley Freeman Charts the Abstract Space of Memory
Freeman transmutes a recollection into a color-based relationship between abstract forms.
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The Divine Light of Josef Strau
Strau's collage-paintings merge the word and the light, while positing the shared slipperiness of language and faith.