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Painting Flowers for Mom
I don't dislike painting flowers.
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Painterly Surfaces on Canvases of Clay
Viola Frey, a powerful woman and rule-busting artist, has not been given enough credit for the ways in which she changed the game for artists working in clay.
Books
The Early Color Films Left Out of the History of Cinema
Dorothy stepping into a Technicolor Oz in 1938 is so iconic that the decades of color film history before it are almost forgotten.
Art
A Photo Series Casts Black College Students as Criminals in Caps and Gowns
EJ Brown remembers being a kid and hearing older relatives talk about Rodney King, the Los Angeles taxi driver beaten by the LAPD.
Books
A Tale of Cats and Boarding School, Written by a 10-Year-Old Queen Victoria
A red notebook in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle reveals a whimsical tale of a motherless girl exiled to boarding school, written in diligently neat script by a 10-year-old Queen Victoria.
News
As Contract Deadline Looms, MoMA Workers Deliver Letter to Director Glenn Lowry
This morning about 100 Museum of Modern Art employees who are members of the United Autoworkers' Local 2110 delivered an open letter to museum director Glenn Lowry in his office.
Art
The Quest to Stage a Concert of Female Singers in Iran
No Land’s Song, the latest documentary from Iranian filmmaker Ayat Najafi, follows a charismatic central character as she struggles to produce an all-women concert in Iran.
In Brief
Museum of Modern Art Acquires Iconic Rainbow Flag
The Rainbow Flag that artist Gilbert Baker created in San Francisco in 1978, and which has since become the icon of the Gay and LGBT Pride movements, has just been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for its design collection.
Art
A Century of Indigenous Printmaking in North America
OKLAHOMA CITY — With nearly 100 prints from artists around North America, Enter the Matrix: Indigenous Printmakers at the University of Oklahoma's Fred Jones. Jr. Museum of Art (FJJMA) celebrates the medium's rise in the 20th century.
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An Exhibition That Ticks Its Way Toward Apocalypse
BRUSSELS — Entering Patrick Bernatchez’s exhibition Les Temps Inacheves (French for “unfinished time”) at the Argos Centre for Art and Media, you are first confronted by “Lost in Time 33-66” (2014), an amplified metronome and a record player.
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A Performance Artist's Politics Leave Their Mark on a Younger Generation
LOS ANGELES — With her billowing costumes, shaved head, dramatic makeup, and pet “art rat” Tatti Wattles on her shoulder, the internationally renowned performance artist Rachel Rosenthal filled up every space she entered.
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In an LA Museum, the Master of Junk Dada Gets His Due
LOS ANGELES — Noah Purifoy could be considered something of a late bloomer. He was already in his thirties when he moved from his native Alabama to Los Angeles to attend Chouinard Art School (now CalArts).