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The Ancient Art of the Labor Strike
Though the term “strike” was coined in 1768, the history of work stoppages is much older and artists have been involved from the start.
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Half a Century of Black Art in Detroit
An exhibition revisits the ongoing legacy of Gallery 7, a space dedicated to Black artists experimenting with abstraction and minimalism in the 1970s.
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Wall-to-Wall Walz at the Minnesota State Fair Seed Art Show
Local artists get political in painstakingly crafted mosaics at the only state fair crop art display in the United States.
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Required Reading
This week: diving into the Black Atlantic, Percival Everett’s James, “demure” by and for trans people, debunking the “marshmallow test,” and much more.
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What to Do When Your National Flag Doesn’t Represent You?
Though she belongs to a movement of young artists exploring recent upheavals in Sri Lanka, Hema Shironi’s works also draw upon her experience as a mixed-identity artist.
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A View From the Easel
“I consider the studio to be a co-creator of my work, and the container for my actions.”
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An Art Exhibition That Makes Rejection Look Good
The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition is preparing to proudly display works that didn’t make it into a popular open-call show at the Brooklyn Museum.
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Child Shatters 3,500-Year-Old Vase at Israeli Museum
The “priceless” vessel was originally found in a tomb at Ein Samiya in the Occupied West Bank.
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New Three-Year Arts Series Will Center NYC's Latine Community
Historias aims to provide a more comprehensive and intersectional view of a steadily growing and diversifying population.
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A Truck Exhibition on Bodily Autonomy Is Traveling Cross-Country
Body Freedom For Every(Body), a rotating art show, will make stops in 15 cities this fall.
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII Get Their Due
Six Lives seeks to fill in the queens’ backstories and present them as individuals rather than supporting players to the King.
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The Artist Who Cast a Cold Gaze on Flowers
Van Huysum's are not paintings of flowers in all their transience, but flowers of the curious Now, in all their splendid, bullish brilliance.