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Critics Talk Shop and Art World Hierarchies
On Wednesday night, art writers and critics Stephanie Cash, Jessica Lynne, Yasmeen Siddiqui, and Jason Stopa gather to talk shop and take questions at the New York Academy of Art.
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An Artist-Run Airline Promises Happiness As It Jets You to Art Fairs
"Happiness is ahead of you," promises Angelhaha founder Qinmin Liu.
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Dancing a Queer Space Odyssey
Dance duo Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener had collaborated with artist Charles Atlas to create Tesseract , a sci-fi movement piece with a live video loop.
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A Dark Comedy Finds Society’s Problems Reflected in the Art World
Swedish director Ruben Östlund's satire The Square follows the misadventures of the chief curator of a fictional contemporary art museum.
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The Quiet Radicalism and Dry Humor of Early Gilbert & George
The duo's early work reveals how they opened the door to truly seeing queer bodies in art.
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The Myths and Failures of Modern Khmer Architecture
Albert Samreth examines the fading legacy of New Khmer Architecture, which wanted to represent recently independent Cambodia as authentically Khmer, but also legibly modern.
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Mickalene Thomas Makes Black Women the Protagonists of Their Own Stories
Positioning black women — artists, actresses, characters, and her own family — as mentors and muses, and as heroic figures in a lineage of their own, Thomas overrides oppressive narratives.
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Consider the Future of Museums with L’Internationale
L’Internationale Dialogues are dedicated to interrogating, debating, and positing new futures for the museum’s place in the world.
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An Art Nouveau Interpretation of the Minoan World
Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World revisits the archaeology of Knossos through a contemporary video installation.
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In Atlanta, Considering Which Confederate Monuments Should Go
From cemetery monuments and statues allegorizing reunification to an obelisk that functions as propaganda for "Lost Cause" rhetoric, the city's monuments make a blanket approach impossible.
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Required Reading
This week, considering Etel Adnan, MVRDV’s "fake" Binhai library, the aesthetics of Empire, the end of Twitter's utopian ideals, mapmakers and horror vacui, and more.
Art
An Iraqi Artist Bears Witness to the Trauma of Displacement
Hayv Kahraman, a half-Kurdish Iraqi and naturalized Swede living in the US, is no stranger to identity politics.