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A Photographer Documents the Highs and Lows of LGBTQ Life in South Africa
This past Sunday was both an auspicious and sobering time to visit the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence.
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The Revolution Has Been Digitized: Explore the Oldest Archive of Radical Posters
The oldest public collection of radical history completed a digital archive of over 2,000 posters.
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A Crucial First Step to Bringing Artists Together to Stay in New York
Life in New York is shaped by relationship to property.
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ArtRx NYC
Celebrate Canada Day and American Independence Day with gentrification, tall ships, Puerto Rican activists, Sandra Bernhard, and more.
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Plans for Mammoth Mother Canada Memorial Provoke Outrage
There's something about pristine, mountainous landscapes that has inspired some of the tackiest public monuments in recent decades.
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Snapshots of 20th-Century Artists Living Life
There's something delightful about seeing famous artists in settings completely unrelated to their art.
Opinion
Trigger Warning: This Post Contains Several Trigger Warnings
Culture in the 21st century is a minefield of trigger warnings, a nebulous type of cautionary note that is deployed as a way to warn people about the content they're about to encounter.
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47 Painters Exhibit Symptoms of the Philip Guston Effect
BOSTON — Before 1968, when Philip Guston more or less began working on a new body of work that would define his late career, it could be said of him, as it was of Lord Dartmouth by the poet William Cowper: this was a man “who wears a coronet and prays.”
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US Museums Criticized for Mishandling Nazi Art Restitution Cases
A new report on the restitution of Holocaust-era artworks condemns a number of US museums for failing to resolve claims straightforwardly and instead resorting to legal maneuvers to have them dismissed.
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Protesters Infiltrate Tony NYC Restaurant to Remind Patrons #BlackLivesMatter
On Friday a collective known as Never 21 staged a performance and action at the 21 Club, a high-end eatery in Midtown Manhattan, calling attention to the police killings of black youth.
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Other Plastic Marvels by the Creator of the Pink Flamingo
He's most recognized for helping to dot the yards of US suburbs with shocking pink plastic flamingos — the exemplar of kitsch that rose from its resin roots to become the "ambassador of the American lawn" and even a "signpost for the transgression of social and cultural convention."
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Bangladeshi Government Breaches Historic Fort Wall to Make Way for a Parking Lot
The English-language newspaper Dhaka Tribune reported on Friday that part of a 400-year-old wall protecting the historic Lalbagh Qilla has been demolished — and that the Bangladeshi government's Archaeological Department signed off on the action.