Interview
A Palestinian Artist Records 17 Versions of a Family Story
Inas Halabi won the AM Qattan Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year Award for her video featuring different family members telling the story of her grandfather's scar.
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In a Show of African Portrait Photography, the Figure Fades Away
The exhibition looks beyond the horizon of defining an African identity, beyond the notion of authentically representing what this identity is supposed to be, as both local and foreign photographers have sought to do.
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Lorraine O'Grady Stars in a New Music Video by Anohni
"Marrow" consists simply of O'Grady lip-synching to Anohni's three-minute song of the same title against a black background.
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A Tech Collective Sets Up a Sleek Boutique — to Help Visitors Elude Big Data
From the street, The Glass Room may look like another boutique, but inside is an exhibit that makes visible the implications of corporate and government data collection.
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Hybrid Objects for a Binary World
In ektor garcia's exhibition in Mexico City, sculptural assemblages that evoke altars, everyday tools, and sex toys blur conventional distinctions between types of artifacts.
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ArtRx LA
This week, watch a play about Surrealist fistfights, hear a late masterwork from avant-garde composer Morton Feldman, attend a political sign-making workshop, and more.
News
Architects Float Plan to Block Trump Tower Chicago Sign with Golden Pigs
An architecture firm visualizes four gilded pigs floating in the air to conceal Trump Tower Chicago’s 20-foot-tall TRUMP sign as a way to “provide visual relief to the citizens of Chicago.”
Announcement
CCCB's Cultural Innovation International Prize Seeks Projects to Fight Climate Change
The second edition of the prize, organized by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, explores ways to creatively tackle the challenge of climate change.
Art
Sustainable Solutions to the Clothing Industry's Staggering Waste Problem
An exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt showcases creative solutions to preproduction by three designers based in Tokyo, Milan, and Los Angeles.
Announcement
VCUarts Awards Grants for Graduate Student Research and Exhibitions
Deadline to apply for Fall 2017 admission to VCUarts highly ranked, graduate fine arts programs is January 15, 2017.
In Brief
British MP Thinks the 2016 Turner Prize Winner Doesn't Measure Up to the Victorians
The former British Education Secretary thinks the new Turner Prize winner isn't as great as the prize's namesake.
Art
Decoding Betye Saar's Uneasy Symbolism
A survey of the American artist's work at Milan's Fondazione Prada showcases her ability to manipulate not only racist iconography, but also personal symbols and autobiographic narratives.