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Seeing Art in the Shadow of Qatar’s Extreme Wealth
A trip to three headline exhibitions in Doha suggests a culture pulled between global and local priorities.
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Learning to Love the Space Between Projects
It's full of instability, but also possibility.
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More Than a Million Strangers Collaborate, Pixel by Pixel, on a Digital Canvas
For 72 hours, Redditors worked together on a million-pixel work that features everything from memes to blocky renditions of van Gogh's "The Starry Night."
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A Somber Sculpture of the First Black Actor to Play Othello
When Ira Aldridge took the London stage in 1825, he became the first black actor to portray Shakespeare's Othello.
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An Anthology of Resistance Poetry Launches at the Queens Museum
Celebrate the publication of Resist Much / Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance with readings and more this Sunday, April 16.
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Two Artists Perform a Conversation on Dismantling Whiteness
As part of their residencies at PAM, Thinh Nguyen and Skip Snow will present a piece of experimental, political theater on April 15 and 16.
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The Violence of the British Slave Trade, as Told Through the Sea
John Akomfrah’s Tropikos, showing at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, navigates the United Kingdom’s role in the slave trade and the inherently formidable power of the sea.
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Bipartisan Letter from Over 150 Members of Congress Urges More Money for the NEA
While President Trump has called for the agency's elimination, more than 150 members of Congress want to increase funding to the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Tehran Gallerists Charged with Trying to Overthrow Iranian Government
Karan Vafadari and Afarin Nayssari, the founders of Aun Gallery, have been held in prison without recourse to legal counsel for over eight months.
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Today Is Henry Darger Day in Chicago
On what would be the self-taught artist's 125th birthday, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art is holding a daylong celebration formally recognized by the mayor of Chicago.
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Our Political Furor Rendered in Ceramic and Fire
Here’s a story: Once upon a time there was a nation. Then it caught on fire. The end.
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Piecing Together Black Identity on Canvas
Juan Logan's work sees Black identity as both a cipher that contains the secret of America’s greatness and a constant reminder of its deepest shame.