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Michelle Obama’s Becoming Tops New York Public Library’s List of 2019 Checkouts
The library has released a list of its 10 most checked out books in 2019. Here's a guide to other highlights.
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The Best Films of the Decade
The landscape of cinema has changed immeasurably in just 10 years. These 25 picks show how.
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A Previously Unseen Side of Betye Saar
At the Museum of Modern Art, spending time with Saar’s early inner self revealed a great deal about her trajectory into genius.
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Required Reading
This week, Peter Schjeldahl is dying, a new Jordan Casteel mural, decolonizing a colonial museum, a guide to emoji punctuation, monoculture on the internet, Baby Yoda cookies and cocktails, and more.
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New Takes on Christmas Music
You wouldn't know it from listening to the same old hits on Christmas radio, but every year a flood of new Christmas music hits the market.
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Beer with a Painter: Richard Hull
“My lifelong project in my painting has been to locate myself.”
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Kiefer Overbrims His World
Anselm Kiefer draws down the world upon his shoulders in a mood of what can only be described as apocalyptic excess.
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The Somber Symbolism of Jill Mulleady
The Swiss-Uruguayan artist here challenges viewers with a single, colossal painting and a group of provocative conceptual pieces.
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Marino Marini’s Scarred Monumentality
Marini’s membership in the Fascist Party is something that will cling to him, despite his self-exile to Switzerland and the anti-imperialist tone of his postwar work.
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Where Brenda Goodman’s Paintings Are Taking Us
From limbless bodies to gorging, ravenous figures to gouged surfaces, there has always been something broken and deeply damaged about Goodman’s art.
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The History Paintings of Jenny Snider
Snider’s interest in the relationship between popular culture, theater, dancing, innovative art, politics, and persecution, as seen through the lens of the Russian Revolution and Soviet art, addresses the present moment.
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Best of 2019: Our Top 15 Exhibitions Around the World
Our picks for the best exhibitions of 2019 outside the United States, and brought to you by the writers and editors of Hyperallergic.