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Brian Jungen’s Giant “Couch Monster” Comes to Toronto
The 13-foot sculpture of an elephant, initially created out of discarded sofas, was cast in bronze for the Art Gallery of Ontario’s first public art commission.
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Tamara Lanier May Sue Harvard for “Emotional Distress” Over Images of Enslaved Ancestors, Court Rules
But the court ruled unanimously that Harvard was not legally obligated to return the photographs.
Art
Stanley Rosen’s Embrace of Vulnerability
If art is regarded traditionally as an impermeable form that resists the effects of time, Rosen acknowledges and accepts their inevitable triumph.
Art
What Does Spiritual Diversity Mean in Contemporary Art?
In From Confucius to Christ, artists from around the world touch on notions of wisdom and insecurity in Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity.
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Will Wilson’s Portraits of Survivance
The New Mexico photographer and Navajo Nation citizen has devoted years to surveying the environmental injustice against his people.
Art
A Little Corner of Heaven in East Los Angeles
Guadalupe Rosales’s East of the River is an exhibition of memory, chance, and grief, all encased in nostalgia.
Film
Enter the World of “Sonic Catering” in Flux Gourmet
Peter Strickland’s latest fetish-fixated film imagines a community of artists who turn food and cooking into soundscapes.
Art
Museum Hosts Community Iron Pour for People Affected by Gun Violence
Participants created artworks that will be exhibited at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Massive Head of Hercules Pulled From Historic Shipwreck
Marine archeologists made the findings while working on the Roman-era Antikythera shipwreck.
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NYC's Last Public Pay Phone Is Now a Museum Artifact
The relic was acquired by the Museum of the City of New York and included in the exhibition Analog City.
Art
A Show About the Great Migration Strikes a Timely Chord
At a moment when the future of this country seems precarious and uncertain, A Movement in Every Direction demonstrates that Black Americans have been among this nation’s most stalwart heroes.
Art
Searching for Healing in Postwar Art
An exhibition at the Barbican in London asks: How do you make sense of war's senseless destruction and loss of human life?