Art
A Preview of Printed Matter's Annual NY Art Book Fair, Featuring 73 First-Time Exhibitors
This weekend, Printed Matter's 13th annual New York Art Books Fair kicks off at MoMA PS1.
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Artist Allegedly Hung a Putin Portrait in Trump DC Hotel Suite — and It Stayed Up for a Month
Brian Whiteley says no one batted an eye at Putin's likeness hanging in the Pennsylvania Avenue suite. The hotel says it never happened.
Art
A New Curatorial Vision Disrupts Inherited Ideas of Regional Identity in African Art
Laura De Becker's first major exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art puts its expansive historical African art holdings in conversation with contemporary art of the continent.
In Brief
A Mississippi Elementary School Changes Its Name from a Confederate President to Barack Obama, Celebrates with Mural
Charles and Talameika Brice were selected to paint the mural at Obama Magnet, which was named after Confederate president Jefferson Davis until this year.
Announcement
First Major US Exhibition of Artist Ree Morton’s Work in Nearly Four Decades at ICA Philadelphia
Curated by Kate Kraczon, Ree Morton: The Plant That Heals May Also Poison will be on view through December 23, 2018.
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Abstractions that Capture the Light and Shadow of an Artist’s Studio
In Juan Iribarren’s paintings, objects are subject to changing climates, seasons, and hours in a day, and the work is a poetic transcription of such atmospheric shifts.
Film
How Capitalist Power Compensates for Racial Oppression in Crazy Rich Asians
Obscene wealth, and its spectacular power to compensate for racial loss, is the central protagonist we are invited to cheer on in Crazy Rich Asians.
Art
A Surrealist Painter Who Collaborated with the Chicago Jazz Scene
The story of how the 20th century artist, Gertrude Abercrombie, was entrenched in the depths of Chicago’s dark, turbulent, discriminatory, social, and political reality.
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Diana Al-Hadid Studies Boundaries While Refusing to Obey Them
In her solo exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Al-Hadid continues to let the most elemental, universal facts of bodies morph into unique forms.
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Required Reading
This week, a new Scottish museum, white supremacy and white artists, an art critic records a year of his professional life, fake images of Islamic science, the battle over Classics, and more.
Art
John Bisbee's Fearless American Steel
Bisbee has never been outspokenly political in his work, but, going by the work in this show, he has decided enough is enough.
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Marilyn Lerner's Random and Deliberate Geometries
I have long thought of Lerner as an outlier whose inspirations include Hilma af Klint, gameboards, tantric art, and her trips to Turkey, Africa, and Southeast Asia.