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Letters Between Dante Gabriel Rossetti and His Model Fanny Cornforth Are Now Online
The Delaware Art Museum has digitized correspondence between the Pre-Raphaelite painter and his overlooked muse.
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Paintings that Praise the Paradises of Bohemia
Thomas Trosch's paintings at Fredericks & Freiser Gallery recall idyllic settings from movie musicals.
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Using Google Street View Data to Track Urban Trees
MIT's project Treepedia maps the protective green canopy of trees in cities around the world, and the places where this nature is missing.
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The Animations and Improvisations of a Trailblazing Nigerien Filmmaker
The Museum of Modern Art's retrospective of the works of Moustapha Alassane is every bit the breakthrough it appears to be.
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Art That’s Too Lovely to Make Its Politics Convincing
Elias Sime's work at James Cohan gallery reclaims and transforms e-waste into art. While an act of conscience, I can’t help but think that the work is swamped by its own aesthetics.
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The Multifarious Feminism of the Whitney Biennial
Through its feminist contributions, the exhibition offers a window onto some of our most pressing cultural concerns, as well as our shortcomings.
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An Installation in a 19th-Century Department Store Collapses Time
In Michael Jones McKean's exhibition The Ground, organized by the Contemporary, he explores the many lives of a former department store that is now home to a sea of internet servers.
Books
How Artists Strive to Make Sense of the Archive in the “Middle East”
The ambitious volume Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East in many ways responds to the post-1990s archive fever, but from a specific geographic locale.
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A Photographer Captures the Sumptuous Loneliness of American Subcultures
In his show at Garvey Simon Art Access, Timothy Hursley presents photographic investigations into Southern funeral homes, Mormon sects, and empty brothels.
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A Poetic Sharjah Biennial for a World in Turmoil
Tamawuj, the 13th biennial organized by the Sharjah Art Foundation, is generous and speculative, unfolding into something almost hopeful.
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100 Years of Queer British Art, from Fin de Siècle Aesthetics to Performative Dandyism
Although Tate Britain’s survey is a strong attempt to represent queer experiences, certain gaps emerge in the narrative.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the Met files to charge out-of-state visitors, a new Banksy mural comments on Brexit, the Tiananmen Square Museum will reopen, and Pepe the Frog gets laid to rest.