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Chicago “Gun Share” Installation Visualizes Easy Access to Assault Rifles
Designed to evoke a bike-share station, the installation in Chicago's Daley Plaza calls attention to the disparate gun laws between states.
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When We Were Young, Featuring 2 New Bikes by Carlos Rolón, On View at Brookfield Place
When We Were Young explores the exquisite mix of engineering and craftmanship from cutting-edge designs to populist expressions, that moves us forward on calibrated wheels.
Art
The Dark, Unruly Brilliance of a Master of Art Informel
Jean Fautrier was a subtle, solitary, strange, serene, and even severe French painter who experienced a good deal of suspension in his saw-tooth-shaped career.
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The Spy Who Taught Me: Bulgaria Accuses Julia Kristeva of Cold War Espionage
The Franco-Bulgarian scholar, philosopher, and psychoanalyst has been accused of being a spy for the Bulgarian government in the early 1970s.
Announcement
SculptureCenter Presents 74 million million million tons, on View Through July 30
The exhibition's artists push against narratives put forth by corporate and government industries by producing specific knowledge and corroborative objects around unmapped historical and political events.
Comics
Stopping for Art and Conversation Along the High Line
I went to see Agora, a group exhibition installed at the High Line, and made my way through the crush of people.
Art
An Imagined Feminist Art School in the Amazon Jungle
Mariángeles Soto-Díaz has created a detailed archive for this imaginary school, which centers indigenous and feminist perspectives.
Film
How and Why Art Became "Degenerate" in Nazi Germany
Narrated in Italian by actor Toni Servillo and directed by Claudio Poli, the film somewhat drowsily recounts the madness of the Nazi’s quest to first sanitize, and then steal the art of Europe.
Comics
We're Living in the Golden Age of Television
But who has the time (and energy) to watch all these supposedly superb shows?
Art
Required Reading
This week, when Canadian students called the art of Carrie Mae Weems racist, Alexa and the blind, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kanye, black jazz ambassadors during the Cold War, and more.
Art
Mary Mattingly's Poetry of Things
Mattingly makes the case that poetry is precisely what’s missing from mainstream responses to anthropogenic climate change.
Art
An Artist Conjures the Ghosts of Displacement
Yun-fei Ji composes a seamless synthesis of Western and Eastern art in the service of his subject: the government-sanctioned erasure of entire villages in the name of progress.