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From Beaded Portraiture to Brainwave Drawings, Favorites from Greenpoint Open Studios
The long trek through Greenpoint Open Studios, which took place June 3 and 4, offered some formally innovative work.
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Watch Films by Local Black, Queer Artists at the Brooklyn Museum
A monthlong series of screenings, beginning Thursday, June 8, features short films by young, black, queer, female-identified, and gender-nonconforming artists based in Brooklyn.
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Miley Cyrus and Her Minstrel Show
Miley Cyrus does not lend credibility to hip-hop, nor can she take it away.
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From a Beirut Lit Journal to a Kim Kardashian Tabloid, Highlights from BABZ Fair 2017
In a new space for its fifth edition, the art book and zine fair renewed its focus on independent publishers and had a strong community ethos.
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After a Dakota Ceremony, Dismantling of Controversial Sculpture Begins in Minneapolis
On Friday, Dakota elders led a ceremony that included a blessing for construction workers who then started to take apart Sam Durant's controversial installation "Scaffold."
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Maya Deren’s Short Films from the 1940s and ’50s Screen at the Norton Simon Museum
On June 9, the museum will host a screening of six of Maya Deren's short films that were milestones in the history of avant-garde cinema.
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Perpetuating the Idea that Modernism Triumphed by Appropriating “Tribal” Art
For all the scholarly expertise employed, an exhibition at Almine Rech Gallery comes off as an exasperating magical negro narrative.
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An Artist Serves Up Food for Thought About Excessive Consumption
Raúl Ortega Ayala's new exhibition at Proyectos Monclova includes a buffet based on a historical image of the restaurant atop the World Trade Center and a model of the Tower of Babel sculpted out of lard.
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Anita Shapolsky Gallery Presents A Non-Objective Couple, with Works by Sonia Gechtoff and James Kelly
Gechtoff and Kelly were key members of the San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism.
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How I Cope While Making Art
Nothing can replace the connection.
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The Outlandish and Beautiful Juxtapositions of Rei Kawakubo
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute dedicates its second solo show of a living designer to Rei Kawakubo, who started her daring clothing label Comme des Garçons in 1973.
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Required Reading
This week, Pink Floyd calls Trump a pig, the problem with the Met Gala, working with Barkley L. Hendricks, an indigenous curator's view of the Venice Biennale, reviewing Vanessa Bell, and more.