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What’s Lost When Activist Art Enters the Institution?
The institutionalization of radical history in Women in Revolt! inevitably blunts the message, and streamlines the complex whole into a concise lineage.
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London’s Royal Academy Looks Critically at Its Past
The academic rigor of Entangled Pasts is counterbalanced by the poignant responses by contemporary artists and some astonishingly inspired curating.
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Javier Arce’s Collaboration With the Spanish Wilderness
The artist considers his own place in the complex history of landscape painting through canvases stretched imperfectly on wood from trees around his home.
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Francis Bacon’s Portrait of a Tragic Lover Goes to Auction for the First Time
Thought to be among his strongest works, "Portrait of George Dyer Crouching" (1966) will leave private collection for the first time since its debut.
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Man Sues Australian Museum Over Women-Only Exhibition
Artist Kirsha Kaechele said the participatory experience is an “opportunity to gather in peace as women without men.”
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Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Celebrates 50 Years of Resiliency
The institution, which helps artists and arts organizations secure grants and hosts free public programming in New York City, hasn't been without challenges.
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Activists Unfurl Massive Quilt for Gaza on Met Museum Steps
They called for an immediate ceasefire while accusing the museum of complicity in Israel's violence against Palestinians.
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How Beatrix Potter Hopped Into Our Hearts
An exhibition at the Morgan Library pays tribute to the illustrator’s prowess as a naturalist, storyteller, mycologist, and sheep farmer.
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History Is a Warning in Neue Nationalgalerie’s Collection-Based Exhibition
Seen today, histories of radical feminist positionality and liberational struggle reverberate with stinging intensity.
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At the Skirball, Finding Common Ground Through Food and Ceramics
An artist and scholar duo hosted community meals with dishes made from water, tree ash, and clay from across the country, now on view at the Skirball Center.
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Art Alone Cannot Save the Greek City of Elefsina
The city was once a hub for an ancient Greek ritual. Now, efforts to harness its fabled past risk merely aestheticizing its current environmental and economic hardship.
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Rose B. Simpson’s Antidote to “Postcolonial Stress Disorder”
“The pieces feel like they used all of us to create themselves,” she told Hyperallergic.