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Photography’s Impossible Attempt at Freezing Time
A photo’s presence suggests the fear of its absence, the artist’s fear of time slipping away.
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Keisha Prioleau-Martin's Body Euphoria
The artist represents what she describes as the “inner glowing life of individuals,” uplifting self-love despite political and economic strife.
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The Artists Bringing Jamaican Dancehall to Center Stage
A group of artists are reinforcing the undeniable cultural value of dancehall in Jamaican culture.
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Madonna’s NFT Collab With Beeple Is a Matryoshka of Vagina Horrors
Can’t Madonna just donate to charity without making everyone look at a 3D scan of her vagina?
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Warhol’s “Blue Marilyn” Breaks Records With $195M Sale
The painting, which bears the bullet holes shot by performance artist Dorothy Podber, is now the most expensive 20th-century artwork to sell at auction.
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Marfa, Texas Joins National Register of Historic Places
Minimalist artist Donald Judd helped transform the rural desert town into an arts destination, the last thing he wanted.
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North America’s Largest Cave Art Discovered in Alabama
The cave is so shallow that the artists would not have been able to see the drawings in their entirety, meaning they worked from their imaginations.
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The Activist Spirit of a Denver Artist Residency Program
Colorado’s Platteforum shows that residency programs can be bold when it comes to serving artists and communities
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The Monstrous Beauty of Louise Bourgeois's Late Textiles
The Woven Child at London’s Hayward Gallery is a moving examination of Bourgeois's fabric sculptures, drawing out themes of motherhood, gender, identity, and trauma.
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A Bruce Mau Documentary Can’t Explain What the Man Does
MAU is too charmed by its subject to nail down what he has achieved, or why people should even care about him in the first place.
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Multiple Realities of Abstract Art at the Southeast Queens Biennial
A poetic sense of materials united the artists of the 2022 Southeast Queens Biennial in New York.
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Soft Scenes of a Rough Life of Labor
Daisuke Fukunaga depicts Japanese workers as tired but happy. Are they, really?