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Michel Houellebecq's Cynicism Persists in His Photographs
For his US gallery debut, Michel Houellebecq presents an exhibition which amounts to a theory attempting to explain the dysfunction of French society.
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A Performance Artist Explores “the Vast Possibilities of Black Female Subjectivity”
In her memoir Swallow the Fish, Gabrielle Civil examines the narratives she’s ingested since childhood and by which she found herself creatively propelled.
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A Feminist Portrait of Adolescence Through Glittery Commodities
Shaina Kasztelan’s assemblages deftly combine a metric ton of cheap commodities for girls, like stickers and plastic jewelry, to tell startling, funny, and personal stories about adolescence.
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Adrián Villar Rojas Excavates Greece’s National Identity
Adrián Villar Rojas's new installation at the National Observatory of Athens prompts thoughts about how far we should dive into the depths of our own past.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: A group of artists and activists demanded the closure of the ICA Boston's Dana Schutz exhibition, an Andy Warhol painting owned by Alice Cooper was rediscovered in a storage locker, and arts writers and cultural figures accused The Village Voice’s owner of weakening its union.
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GIFs, Webcomics, Memes, and More Join the Library of Congress Archives
The Library of Congress has added webcomics and web culture sites to its digital archives, collecting viral content that could've otherwise been lost to time.
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Lygia Pape's Daughter Sues Electronics Giant LG for Copyright Infringement
After she denied the company's requests to use an image of one of Pape's works, the company made its own derivative version, Paula Pape claims in her lawsuit.
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Florida Man Calls for Replacing Confederate Monument with Manatee Memorial
A denizen of Bradenton is petitioning the city to replace a memorial to Confederate soldiers with one for the beloved, recently deceased Snooty.
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When Comics Abandon Narrative and Venture into Abstraction
An exhibition at Printed Matter features 15 artists whose serial comics play with the conventions of narrative.
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Remembering the NAACP's Silent Protest Parade, a 1917 March Against Racial Terror
Yale's Beinecke Library marks the centennial of when 10,000 people marched silently through New York City, one of the earliest African American civil rights demonstrations.
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Artistic Responses to the Systemic Inequalities in US Education
For this Smack Mellon exhibition, artists were given textual prompts regarding education, particularly how it relates to the historical struggles for social equity and justice.
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Wielding Instruments Like Weapons, a Marching Band Sweeps Through Mexico City
Erick Meyenberg's The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg reflects on modern Mexican society as a machine powered by the mechanisms of the state.