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Required Reading
This week: snarky dance criticism, a Super Bowl performer’s protest, Barbara Kingsolver builds a rehab center, Chappell Roan starts a trend, and did Rupi Kaur’s poem age well?
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8 Art Books on Love to Read This Valentine’s Day
Letter-writing, art historical affairs, Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, and more artsy titles on love in all its forms.
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Why Do All My Hinge Options Look Like Guys From Old Paintings?
As it turns out, men have been posing with fish for hundreds of years.
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Historical Maps to the Heart Help Chart Your Way to Love
Why bother with the so-called Gulf of America when you can dip in the Bay of Bliss or Cape Content?
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Alexis Rockman Paints Humanity’s Final Season
Taking on Thomas Cole’s epic The Course of Empire, the New York artist asks if we’ve all had a good run.
News
Why Did Australia Abruptly Ditch Its Venice Biennale Artist and Curator?
It took only one week for the country to find a reason to disqualify Lebanese-born artist Khaled Sabsabi.
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The Drag Queen Artist Who Helped Make the East Village Interesting
From a large Wigstock banner to more intimate self-portraits, Tabboo!’s art sparkles anew in two contemporaneous exhibitions.
Community
A View From the Easel
“Water has become my actual medium.”
News
Jeffrey Gibson’s Venice Biennale Show Is Heading to LA
Opening at the Broad in May, the exhibition will include dozens of works featuring the artist’s telltale colorful geometric patterning and stylized text.
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Master Printmaker Krishna Reddy Never Stopped Learning
The Indian-American printmaker’s experimental, collaborative spirit yielded a new method for multicolored intaglio printing and inspired a generation of artists.
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Stephanie H. Shih’s Time Capsules of the Heart
She rescues objects from the garbage bin of mass-produced memory and reimagines them as art.
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The Opulent Beadwork of Black Masker Demond Melancon
The Louisiana-based artist, known for his hand-beaded portraits and Mardi Gras Indian suits, is the recipient of this year’s 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art.