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This week, queer Black art utopias, search engines are a problem, radiators and pandemics, a bad fortune cookie art project, Pornhub's rape problem, and more.
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Elijah Pierce’s Sermons in Wood
Pierce gave visual form to the bitter truths of slavery, as well as to his own experience growing up in the Jim Crow South.
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George Condo’s Cutism
Condo’s paintings play to his viewers’ sense of superiority; it gives them something to smile at without thinking too deeply into the work.
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J.M.W. Turner, the Modern
A show at Tate Britain underscores Turner as the great recorder of elemental disorder and industrial pollution on the grand scale.
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Only Poetry Can Interrogate Sex
Language caresses the tongue.
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Satirical Corporate Website Brands Ecofascism
Samuel Marion’s satirical corporate website shows how the far right might leverage environmentalism to justify white supremacist agendas.
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Poems of Spiritual Quest and Musical Yearning
Joseph Donahue's verse is rarely melodramatic, but rather humane and temperate, even when the insights are startling.
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The Trove of Hanukkah Treasures In New York City's Public Collections
A bright pink silicon menorah in the Jewish Museum, a pair of Hanukkah hymns from a medieval prayer book in the New York Public Library, and other gems.
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LA County Department of Arts and Culture Awards $12 Million in Relief Grants
The nonprofits, many smaller in size, are now saying they can finally “focus on work.”
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Arts Leaders Call for Senior Executives to Resign at Americans for the Arts
“Questions from this council about AFTA’s racial equity work have been met with resistance, claims of capacity issues, and defensiveness,” says a letter signed by 14 out of 15 elected members of AFTA’s Arts Education Advisory Council.
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“Aachoo!!": Banksy’s Latest Coronavirus Commentary Appears in Bristol
After the mural appeared on the for-sale home, its owners swiftly took the house off the market to consider their next steps.
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Tulsa Artist Fellowship Provides Extraordinary Support
The award includes a $40,000 stipend, plus fully subsidized living and studio space for two years in Tulsa, Oklahoma.