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Titanic Expedition Uncovers Long-Lost Statue of a Woman
A voyage to the famous shipwreck pinpointed the location of a two-foot-tall bronze replica of the Louvre Museum’s “Diana of Versailles,” last photographed in 1986.
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Opinion
We Can Do Better Than Just Museum Field Trips
Art museums should take their educational role more seriously, and offer more creative programming for schools and their students.
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Eric Avery’s Healing Art
In a career that stretches across a catastrophic half-century of health crises and wars, Avery applies his activist and empathetic social conscience to all he does.
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Mickalene Thomas Is Fashioning Black Female Beauty
Thomas’s shimmering collages are, among other things, meditations on and appreciations of Black female beauty and sexuality.
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The Raw Humanity of Henry Moore’s Drawings
Moore’s drawings made in underground shelters during WWII show us strangers whose lives had been shredded by grief, despair, and fear.
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Kathia St. Hilaire Collages the Complex History of Haiti
Like the narratives she portrays, St. Hilaire’s artistic technique is layered and complex, and reflects vernacular cultural aesthetics and practices.
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10 Art Shows to Visit in Los Angeles This September
Unsung lesbian photographer Tee A. Corinne, Rachael Bos’s Olympic oil paintings, Samantha Yun Wall redeems mythical antagonists, Tom Van Sant’s portrait of the earth, and more.
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An Anti-Institution Artist Gets an Institutional Show
The first exhibition to consider late artist David Medalla’s work in context of his gay identity explores his playful, poignant, erotic, and collaborative oeuvre.
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How Tropical Modernism Became a Tool of Postcolonial Nation-Building
A show hones in on the tension between colonial European ideas and local styles of architecture as India and Ghana gained independence.
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Market Uncertainty Didn’t Dampen Sales at This Year’s Armory Show
Contemporary artists with large followings beyond the traditional scope of the art world had little trouble unloading their latest works.
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Art on Paper Is Still a Wholesome Hub for Fans of the Medium
A miniature book fair, printmaking workshops, and generous price tags more than make up for the more gimmicky aspects of this Manhattan show.
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Two NYC Art Fairs Remind Us It’s Okay to Start Anew
At Clio and Salon Zürcher, I found a drag show, celestial paintings, and welcome spaces for artists to debut new directions.