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LA's Art Community and Activists React to the Closing of 356 Mission
The Boyle Heights nonprofit space founded five years ago by Laura Owens and Wendy Yao had long been the focus of anti-gentrification protests.
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A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Resistance Stories
Freedom on the Move from Cornell University is the first major digital database of fugitive slave ads from North America.
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Andreas Gursky Captures the Pandemonium of Industrialized Overproduction
The photographer reproduces a sense of economic spectacle suffused with an encroaching disbelief in its benefits in his retrospective at the newly renovated Hayward Gallery.
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Forgotten Old Master Painting Rediscovered in Iowa Storeroom
An unusual detail helped scholars attribute the painting to Otto van Veen: "The rosy cheeks on the model ... And not the cheeks on the face.”
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The Renaissance Roots of Social Media
Centuries before Facebook, traveling scholars carried “friendship books” — alba amicorum — to document their professional and personal associations.
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Artists Share Their Studio Playlists
Chimento Contemporary hosts a live recording of artist Pia Pack's podcast What Artists Listen To, with Zeal Harris, Alexandra Grant, Shizu Saldamando, and Cole James.
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A Portrait of Black Life in Florida, One Neighborhood at a Time
“The histories of Black communities in the United States have been undervalued, suppressed, erased throughout time.”
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The Beauty and Anxiety of Seeing Myself, and My Partner, in a Portrait
I forget if we asked Danny Ferrell to paint us or if it was his idea, but I was surprised to feel so much when I saw the painting for the first time at an art fair.
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India Is Building the World's Tallest Statue
Envisioned to rise nearly 600-feet-tall, the Unity Statue will be twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.
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Two Chicago Exhibitions Elaborate on Emptiness and Space
Though the two shows examine the void in distinctly different ways, only one gets it right.
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An Aerial Dance with an Abraham Cruzvillegas Sculpture
At the Kitchen, choreographer Bárbara Foulkes will perform an improvised aerial dance with Cruzvillegas's suspended sculpture, with musical accompaniment by Andrés García Nestitla.
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A Message to the Future from Artists on the Front Lines of Sea-Level Rise
In Miami, sea-level rise is not a science fictional future — it’s a present-day reality that artists must reckon with.