Art
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.
Art
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.
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How Alternative Art Spaces Changed Los Angeles in the 1970s
Throughout the 1970s and into the ’80s, artists in Los Angeles created organizations and exhibition spaces to develop the resources they lacked.
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Here Are the 63 Artists In This Year's Whitney Biennial
This year’s show is the first since a tumultuous 2019 edition rocked by protests over former trustee Warren B. Kanders's connections to tear gas manufacturing.
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Subtle and Finessed Depictions at the Master Drawings Fair
The close, careful, and subtle observation I found this year is representative of precisely why I continue to gravitate to this fair.
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“Mothers March On” and Beholding, Black World Making
How do we counter stereotypes about Black mothers, while stressing the importance of memory, determination, love, and corporeality?
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The Phillips Collection Celebrates a Century by Centering Black Abstraction
With two stellar retrospectives, one time-based installation, and several commissions by local artists, the Phillips Collection has dedicated its galleries to highlighting abstract work by Black artists.
Opinion
Why We Have Storytelling
As we begin a new year, a small moment on Queer Eye makes me think about the profound effect our stories can have on each other.
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NYC’s Racist Roosevelt Statue Is Gone, But Concerns Over Its Relocation Remain
Some have criticized the racist monument’s planned relocation to North Dakota, near land seized from Indigenous people.
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Hours Before King of Spain's Visit, Ponce de León Statue Toppled in Puerto Rico
A group called the Boriken Libertarian Forces toppled the monument hours before King Felipe VI of Spain’s visit.
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William Gropper's Incisive Cartoons in Defense of the New Deal Look Familiar Today
Still resonating with relevance, William Gropper's incisive cartoons in defense of the WPA go on auction at New York's Swann Galleries together with other works by celebrated WPA artists.