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Kid Cartoonist Pushes Scholastic Art Contest to Reconsider Its Copyright Policy
Sasha Matthews, 13, didn't want to sign away the rights to her drawings. Instead, she critiqued the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards in a cartoon and on Twitter.
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Sprechen Sie Kunst? How to Speak German in the Art World
If you need to talk to a hotshot Berlin gallerist or send an invitation to curator Okuwei Enzewor, then we have found the book for you.
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Banksy Blitz Continues in NYC with New Murals in Brooklyn
Two murals by the secretive British street artist have appeared at a former gas station in Midwood.
Books
Designing Products from Dung, Dust, and Other Strange and Sustainable Materials
By far the most compelling chapter, likely because the category teeters between human and natural waste, is "Shit, Hair, Dust." (The shock factor doesn't hurt, either.)
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Virginia MOCA Presents Inka Essenhigh: A Fine Line
Ghosts and gods, monsters and maenads, carry Essenhigh’s portrayal of the 21st-century human from her brush into the viewer’s imagination.
Comics
My Mom Thinks Artist Residencies Are Retreats
But for me, they're occasions to get a lot of work done.
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After Incendiary Performance, Russian Artist Awaits His Fate
Petr Pavlensky fled Russia in 2017, but late last year he was arrested after setting fire to France's central bank. The subsequent legal proceedings have been cloaked in secrecy.
Art
Required Reading
This week, National Geographic's racist past, reviewing Surrealism in Egypt, the best museum in the world, FBI surveillance of black bookstores, Portugal's role in introducing tempura to Japan, and more.
Art
A Minimalist Transformation of Minimalism
Otis Jones proves that painting’s parameters continue to be commodious — even reductive painting has not been used up.
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Deana Lawson’s Iconoclastic Portraits
Lawson confronts viewers with multifaceted visions of black identity, as embodied by strangers and neighbors alike, with whom she has established an intense rapport.
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Sliding Down the Slippery Slope
The choice has come down to essential realities or a life of fantasy.
Art
The Politics of Sound in a Prison
Lawrence Abu Hamdan attempts to reconstruct the psycho-physical conditions in which prisoners lived at Syria’s Saydnaya prison by using recorded testimonials.