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Iran Sentences Filmmaker for "Unlawful" Cannes Screening
Saeed Roustaee was charged with “propaganda against the government” after his latest film Leila’s Brothers screened at the festival.
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Marie Watt Invites You to Hug a Jingle Cloud
Touch is at the core of Watt’s latest body of work, featuring hanging metal sculptures that echo the energy and spirit of a Native powwow.
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Hank Willis Thomas Dives Into the Rivers of History
Using retroreflective material, the artist’s latest works look at the way that rivers both carry and conceal as a means of examining history.
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Lari Pittman Paints Cities of the Future
It is his maximalist messiness — his embrace of difference, however awkward or confounding — that connects Pittman’s paintings to the beauty of Los Angeles.
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Art Institute of Chicago Workers Ratify Union Contract
Over 500 workers at the museum and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago secured wage increases after 14 months of negotiations.
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Did a Shoe Campaign Copy a Felix Gonzalez-Torres Artwork?
Some think the similarities between Kith’s new ad and the artist’s iconic “Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)” (1991) are too striking to be accidental.
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The Dark Side of Van Gogh’s Cypress Trees
The challenge at the heart of Van Gogh’s Cypresses is that the trees carried associations in the late 19th century that are lost on us today.
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A Seance and a Beer With Hilma Af Klint and Piet Mondrian
Today’s audiences are evidently more open to Mondrian and af Klint’s sensibilities than those of their time.
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Gwen John’s Portraits of the “New Woman”
Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris shows the nature of her dogged opposition: how she fought back, and won, in her own way.
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An Exploration Into Queer Healing
An exhibition at the LGBT Community Center in New York City is a visual interrogation of the relationship between queerness and restorative mechanisms.
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Turkish Curator Resigns From Venice Biennale Pavilion
Esra Sarıgedik Öktem stepped down after the Istanbul Biennial appointed a member of its own board as curator in place of Defne Ayas, the agreed-upon candidate.
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Met Museum Acquires Rare 19th-Century Portrait of Enslaved Child
The painting of 15-year-old Bélizaire with the children of the family that enslaved him was restored to its original composition after his figure was covered up around 1900.