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Paul Ramírez Jonas Asks What Constitutes a Public
In his much-deserved 25-year survey at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Ramírez-Jonas challenges conventional definitions of public art by openly asking what brings people together.
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Adobe Releases Digital Brushes Modeled on Edvard Munch’s
Oslo's Munch Museum and an "award winning Photoshop brush maker" teamed up to create a set of digital brushes based on seven real ones that Munch used.
Comics
What Your Snack Choices Say About You as an Artist
Unpacking that craving for Triscuits.
Art
16 Manhattan Galleries Host 36 Out-of-Town Art Spaces
Condo New York is a sprawling, collaborative omnibus exhibition spanning spaces in Chelsea, the Lower East Side, and Tribeca.
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An Artist Uncovers Asheville’s Hidden African American History
DeWayne Barton founded Hood Huggers to tell the stories of Asheville's black community, which has been and continues to be displaced.
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Jimmie Durham Retrospective Reignites Debate Over His Claim of Native Ancestry
Though he has both claimed to have and denied having Cherokee heritage, institutions often present Durham as a Native American artist.
Art
The American Landscape Photographers Who Focused on the Environment in the ’70s
A desire to avoid romanticizing the landscape is fundamental to the shifts in landscape photography that occurred in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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The Sophisticated Design of a 3,000-Year-Old Wooden Toe
Researchers are studying anew one of the oldest prosthetic devices ever made.
Art
A Kuwaiti Artist Contemplates the Failure of a Museum that Never Opened
Alia Farid, for her first show in Paris, uses the graphic look of conceptual art to fashion an installation that explores a museum’s failure.
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A Discussion of the Cuban Avant-Garde and Revolution
In light of the Long Beach Museum of Art's exhibition, Rafael Soriano: The Artist as Mystic, the museum is hosting a panel discussion on July 2 that will focus on the Cuban avant-garde.
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Thanks to Capitalism, These Authentic Communist Statues Could Be Yours
Available for purchase right now on eBay are two statues of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin, both completely intact and attached to their original pedestals.
Art
Artists and Scholars Gather to Take Stock of South Asian American Art
A conference running June 30–July 2 brings together creators, curators, and scholars of South Asian American art from across the country.