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Reflections from Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter

"We were a congregation of red-beaded necklace adorners, velveteen ushers, rattlers, and clenched-fist praise dancers."

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Mourners from Around the Globe Gather to Share Our Traditions of Grief

As a New York gravedigger once succinctly put it to me: “We all have dead.” No person is isolated from loss.

Comics

When Your Brain Gets Ahead of You

Art

Glimpsing the Evolution of Glass Lenses in Three Centuries of Microscopes

CORNING, NY — To closely inspect the evolution of the microscope, the Corning Museum of Glass is highlighting the lens-making behind the optical tool.

Art

The Salvaged Belongings of a 1980s Punk Drummer

MINNEAPOLIS — Nostalgia for the Minneapolis music scene of the 1980s has been at somewhat of a fever pitch of late.

Art

How Daniel Buren's Institutional Critique Became Institutional Chic

PARIS — Lacking any discernible content outside of context, the translucent, cheery façade of Daniel Buren’s "Observatory of Light” (2016) at the Foundation Louis Vuitton is another example of how once-radical conceptual artists have become co-opted and turned into spiffy designer-decorators.

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Theaster Gates Contemplates What Creates and Destroys Communities

MILAN — Following the major economic crises in Europe and the US, political art has become increasingly visible in those parts of the world. At the same time, it’s become increasingly difficult to ignore questions about the art’s actual effectiveness.

In Brief

Misunderestimated Painter George W. Bush Is Releasing an Art Book

As part of a continuing effort to paint over his legacy as a war criminal and the worst US president ever, George W. Bush will soon publish an art book.

Art

Five New Presses and One Tattoo Parlor at Printed Matter's 2016 NY Art Book Fair

Opening tomorrow, Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair is an annual sprawl of the printed word, from scrappy zines to rare editions of avant-garde art books.

Art

Gathering the Work of Guyanese Artists Far from Home

I visited Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, to see Un l Fixed Homeland less because of the ideas behind it and more because it features a group of Guyanese artists I didn't know — artists I thought might offer diverse views of history, memory, perception, and documentation.

News

First Faculty Lockout in US College History Bars Art Profs from Classes and Studios [UPDATED]

Since Long Island University locked out the roughly 400 members of the faculty union from its Brooklyn campus on August 31, printmaking professor Hilary Lorenz has not been able to ride her bicycle.

Interview

Sexism and the Canon: Three Female Artists Reflect on 'Women of Abstract Expressionism'

DENVER — The paintings in Women of Abstract Expressionism at the Denver Art Museum are rich with emotion, monumental in scale, and totally original.