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A Joyful Meeting of Matisse and Renoir
New Encounters takes Matisse and Renoir out of their usual spots at the Barnes Foundation to shed light on the relationship between the two artists.
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A Queens Show Celebrates NYC’s Latine and African Music History
At the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, an exhibition pays tribute to genres such as jazz, reggae, and bomba through visual mediums.
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Gavin Jantjes’s Soft Songs From Exile
Since being forced to leave South Africa for critiquing Apartheid, the artist has worked from afar to shed light on Black struggles for equality.
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Your Guide to Navigating New York City’s Fall Art Fairs
We can’t promise you won’t get lost in a maze of booths, but we can steer you to the fairs worth the trip.
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Can You Spot These Mini Canvases Hidden Around Brooklyn?
Steve Wasterval stashes his tiny paintings of Greenpoint locales in traffic cones, behind telephone pole flyers, and even at Citi Bike stations.
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The Queer Artists Who Helped Shape the Southwest
Out West has no strict or static boundaries, no assumptions about or prescriptions for what 20th-century “queer art” in the region may have been.
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Tavares Strachan Complicates What It Means to Be a “Pioneer”
The artist tells the stories of unsung people of color who played key roles in crucial events of Euro-American culture, including exploitative and colonialist endeavors.
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A Deeply Personal Investigation Into Canada’s Residential Schools
Co-directors Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie discuss the making of their documentary Sugarcane, told from the perspective of Indigenous survivors.
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Mural of Olympic Volleyball Star Defaced With Racist Graffiti
Italian player Paola Egonu’s skin was painted over in pink in a widely condemned act of vandalism.
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Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Statue of His Wife in the “Roman Tradition”
Priscilla Chan’s likeness, sculpted by artist Daniel Arsham, is yet another example of billionaires’ obsession with commissioning giant tributes to their partners.
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Required Reading
This week: art-world dogs, the politics of book cover design, June Jordan’s unwavering anti-Zionism, collegiate architecture, Chinchilla XCX, and much more.
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Rothko Chapel Paintings Damaged by Hurricane Beryl
The Houston space will remain closed indefinitely until conservation needs are addressed.