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Required Reading
This week, the best 2020 architecture in India, the lie of trickle-down economics, Armenian artists respond, an artist poses as a billionaire to photograph penthouses, and much more.
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Artists Quarantine with Their Art Collections
“Placing the symbolic weight of this mayhem into the palm of my hand brings me comfort and hope.”
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Steve DiBenedetto’s Raw Nerves
Whatever the impulse that initiated the paintings, DiBenedetto clearly works everything out on the surface.
Music
Two Sad Christmas Songs
What if the season is not jolly?
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Painting “the Eternity of Time”
Tu Hongtao's paintings revisit the traditions of Chinese painting while evading the perils of oversimplification and stagnation.
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Mary Mattingly Confronts Climate Change With Utopic Resourcefulness
Mattingly's landscape photographs evoke each site's geologic timeline.
Announcement
Apply for Graduate Programs in Art History & Criticism and Studio Art at Stony Brook University
To be considered for the highest levels of funding and support, applications must be received by January 15, 2021. The last day to apply is March 1, 2021.
Podcast
From Graffiti to the Gallery, Futura Talks About Art
After 32 years, artist Futura is back with a solo exhibition in New York, his hometown where he first developed his reputation as a graffiti writer.
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RIP Adobe Flash: Five Takeaways About the Plug-in’s Legacy in Net Art
Adobe Flash has the reached the end of its life. Artists and digital archivists share thoughts regarding its demise and what open source tools are accessible to archive old Flash-based works.
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Tracing Networks of Political Corruption in Sheida Soleimani’s Slick, Hyper-Stylized Tableaux
Hotbed zeroes in on the places where these power relations and abuses between the US and Iran make themselves most visible.
Music
Listening to the Joy in James Baldwin’s Record Collection
Curator Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi hopes to rouse a new generation of writers with “Chez Baldwin,” a 32-hour-long Spotify playlist based on Baldwin’s vinyl record collection.
News
Amsterdam Wants Residents to Tone Down Their Christmas Lights
If the proposal passes, yule be sorry if you go overboard with colorful lights or Santa displays in the Dutch city.