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This week, artist studios in Australia, California, the Netherlands, New York, and West Virginia.
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Week in Review: David Hockney is the Most Expensive Living Artist, Glenn Lowry Extends MoMA Directorship
Leon and Debra Black will donate $40 million to MoMA's expansion, MASS MoCA extends Sol LeWitt exhibition until 2043, and more.
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Hockney Painting Becomes Most Expensive Work Sold by a Living Artist, and US Returns Bells of Balangiga to Philippines
Plus, the Smithsonian acquires an Arthur Jafa video, and a Nazi-looted painting is returned to its heirs.
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Why Leftist Activists Should Learn to "Follow the Money"
In Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age, Belgian philosopher Michel Feher proposes strategies for activists in an age of unchecked finance capitalism.
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Emerging LGBTQ Artists Find Hope Amid a Grim Political Landscape
The Queer Art Mentorship (QAM) annual exhibition, Here & Not Yet, comes at a critical moment for the LGBTQ community.
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A New Collection of Saul Steinberg’s Influential Cartoons
The Labyrinth, originally published in 1960 and long out of print, is the perfect introduction or reintroduction to Steinberg's incomparable style.
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Hip-Hop’s Love of Remix Is Influencing Architecture
The upside of an exhibition about hip-hop architecture, a movement in its infancy, is that it’s hard to pigeonhole. But it’s also hard to determine what visually brings all the works together.
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A Winnie-the-Pooh Exhibition Blurs the Lines Between Art, Commerce, and Entertainment
The exhibition flounders in part simply because of the blatant application of its own commercial terms on the viewer, most especially, on children and their parents.
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Art Movements
Steven Kasher Gallery will close, Hilton Als received the Langston Hughes Medal from The City College of New York, and more.
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An Exhibition Critically Explores the History of Missionaries in Hawai'i
Pulling objects from the collections of Williams College, "The Field is the World" questions how these contentious histories have existed and how they can change.
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Among Destruction Brought by California Fires, Famous Western Town Lays in Ruins
The old Wild West movie set served as the backdrop for Hollywood classics and was home to a short-lived alternative art fair, Paramount Ranch.
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Remembering Las Mariposas, the Sisters Who Resisted a Violent Dictatorship
The sisters formed a political group, the Movement of the Fourteenth of June, in opposition to the violent dictatorship of the Dominican Republic. They were assassinated in 1960.