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Simone Leigh Sculpture Replaces a Confederate Monument In New Orleans
Unveiled as a part of the Prospect.5 triennial, the bronze is one of five new works that suggest new approaches to public statuary.
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The Surrealist Painting That Survived A Fascist Attack
X-ray imaging revealed the hidden wounds on Yves Tanguy’s 1930 masterpiece, which was slashed violently during an attack on a Paris arthouse theater.
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Portraits of Anthony Fauci and Ava DuVernay Will Hang in the Smithsonian
Their portraits will be included along with those of Venus and Serena Williams, José Andrés, Clive Davis, and Marian Wright Edelman.
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Bisa Butler, Andre D. Wagner, and Nicole Fleetwood Named Gordon Parks Fellows
Since 2017, the Gordon Parks Foundation has awarded annual fellowships to 10 artists in a range of disciplines.
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Special Edition: Under-recognized Art Histories
To understand contemporary art, it is necessary to investigate the connections that are sometimes omitted or undervalued in art history.
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The California Dream in the Prints of Frances Gearhart
Gearhart founded a print gallery with her sisters and was at the center of the Arts and Crafts movement in southern California.
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The Edgy and Lucid Video Art of Rafael França
Video art was something you watched “with the lights on,” as França insisted, without pretenses of high art.
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The Legacy of a Pioneering Subway Artist Lives On in a Final Art Book
PHASE 2 would emerge as an innovator in New York’s burgeoning subway art movement, creating elaborate murals that would shape the evolution of both the spray can and the art form.
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A Tale of Two Countries: Finding Indo-Caribbean Shakti in Colorado
While the South Asian diaspora is one of the largest and most widely dispersed in the world, the Indo-Caribbean community is often overlooked and excluded from discussions of South Asian art.
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Remembering the Legacy of a Larger-Than-Life Artist, Sam Tchakalian
The Bay Area artist believed in shaping artists rather than relaying rules.
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Programming Language Design as Art
Open-ended, community based, and collaborative, "esolangs" serve as a reminder that digital art has other histories and other futures.
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The Cass Corridor Movement's Salvation Through Salvage
Working with what they had, Cass Corridor artists scrapped and repurposed anything they could get their hands on, attempting to find some salvation for their city through a literal process of salvage and reuse.