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This week: photojournalists amid California’s wildfires, Leonora Carrington in Mexico, Black Philly artists sew reusable pads, an AI lawsuit tracker, and can fiction make men better people?
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“It Looks Like a Bomb Exploded”: LA Artists Grapple With Loss as Fires Rage
“I literally only have the clothes I’m wearing, but that’s the same story as thousands of others,” artist Amir Nikravan told Hyperallergic.
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The Artist Who Ushered Us From Medieval to Modern
Jacopo Ligozzi gave visual expression to the developing myth of empirical objectivity, of being able to successfully collect, measure, analyze, and categorize.
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There Are No Art Hierarchies in the KAWS Collection
With over 300 works on paper, plus paintings, sculptures, and furniture, The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection includes work by artists of every stripe.
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A View From the Easel
“My studio, in a sense, is an escape where I can re-enter my art world and create.”
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Historic Buildings Destroyed in Southern California Blazes
Museums and galleries are shuttering as the deadly firestorm continues to burn through LA County.
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The Eternal Dance of Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting
Poems from centuries ago can stand in dialogue with painters speaking to their contemporaries, and calligraphy serves as a bit of a bridge between them.
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Wax Figure of Benjamin Netanyahu Targeted in Mexico City
A protester defaced the sculpture of the Israeli prime minister on view at the local wax museum, shouting “Viva Palestina, viva Sudan, viva Yemen, viva Puerto Rico, viva Tigray.”
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Joseph Beuys Predicted the “Manosphere”
Beuys tackled masculinity through humor and irreverence — but the subjects he parodied are increasingly a fixation for an oppressive segment of the population.
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Levon Kafafian’s Cocoon From the Future
In the artist’s futuristic world of Azadistan, textiles become socio-political tools that sketch a vision of cultural expression beyond technological frameworks.
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Mario R. Rossero Named Director of Andy Warhol Museum
Rossero, who began his career as an art educator at the museum in 1997, will replace former Director Patrick Moore.
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Pacific Palisades Fire Spreads to Getty Villa Grounds
The blaze impacted vegetation surrounding the structure but its staff and collection remained safe, a spokesperson said.