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Latin American Artists Wrestle with Identity Politics at Pinta Miami
Pinta Miami, a fair dedicated mainly to Latin American artists, feels true to the city.
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Drug Culture: Picturing Pharmaceuticals Since 1850
PhotoRx: Pharmacy in Photography Since 1850 explores a pharmaceutical company's collection of art on drugs.
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How Freedom Was Aestheticized During the Cold War
The House of World Cultures' exhibition tells the story of the Congress for Cultural Freedom's use of an aesthetic of freedom, and contextualizes the lasting legacy of modernism within the geopolitical power struggles of the Cold War.
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Entering Two Painters’ Visions of Home
In Home Work, Ann Toebbe and Sarah McEneaney posit two different visions of middle-class domestic space.
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The Utopian Leisure of Soviet Sanatoriums
Unlike Westerners, Soviets preferred to vacation at sanatoriums, which were modernist structures infused with a sense of utopia.
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Glimpses of Our Strange, Painful World at the Untitled Art Fair
Plenty of work at Untitled addresses dystopia, the reclamation of history and identity, and the absurdity of an art market that tries to address these topics.
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How Medieval Manuscript Makers Experimented with Graphic Design
Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries considers how early English manuscripts approached graphic design.
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Pushing Back Against the Sensational Image of Chicago as "Chi-raq"
Amanda Williams, an architect turned artist, has shifted her practice from constructing buildings, to making work that understands and reveals the social implications of how and when they are destroyed.
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The Most Important Non-Superhero Comic You’ve Never Heard Of
Dave Sim's Cerebus, published 40 years ago, has had an enduring, complex influence.
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Louvre Abu Dhabi Claims They Own Leonardo's "Salvator Mundi" [UPDATE 2]
The Louvre Abu Dhabi is now claiming it owns the world's most expensive artwork.
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The Long 1960s, Seen Through NYPD Surveillance Photographs
The show offers rich historical materials, but little contextualization or insight into its relevance for our current political moment.
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This week in art news: wildfires forced the Getty Center and Skirball Cultural Center to close, the buyer of Leonardo's "Salvator Mundi" was revealed, and President Trump drastically reduced the size of two US National Monuments.