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This week: Joe Sacco on truth and art, the invention of “close reading,” a century of Mrs. Dalloway, Google gets a makeover, the biggest and smallest dogs meet, and much more.
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A View From the Easel
“There’s a Rauschenberg piece I like to sit with to reconnect with why I make art at all.”
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Taiwanese American Arts Council Presents Eco Art on Island
Join TAAC on Governors Island for a series of exhibitions and programs in which artists, curators, medical professionals, and environmental experts respond to island ecologies.
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Mitchell Johnson Exhibits Paintings at Paris’s Galerie Mercier
Twelve intimate works created by Johnson over the past seven years are on view at the gallery from May 20 to 31.
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What Do Visitors Think of Thomas J. Price’s Times Square Sculpture?
Hyperallergic set out to hear from people seeing the artwork onsite, and their thoughts were considerably different from the online discourse.
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Why Did a Frank Lloyd Wright Lamp Sell for $7.5M?
The eyebrow-raising sale price for the 23-by-32-inch double-pedestal lamp might have something to do with the architect’s unique creative ethos.
Art Review
The Unexpected Beauty of Detritus
Through his art, Yuji Agematsu brings reverence and discipline to this job of living, and acknowledges each human’s durational condition.
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Dakota Mace’s Quiet Enactment of Diné Philosophy
The artist’s show at SITE Santa Fe shows how Indigenous thought and contemporary exhibition-making can co-exist without compromise.
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The Fabricated Crisis of Art Criticism
The genre is more alive than ever, so why are many eager to pronounce it dead?
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Why Is For Freedoms Designing Art for a New Brooklyn Jail? [UPDATED]
The collective proposed a series of works for the controversial Borough-Based Jails project, which has received pushback from artists and organizers.
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Meet the Recipients of the 2025 Asian Cultural Council Artist Grants
Taiwanese puppeteer Tsai Yi-Wei plans to further develop his practice with the grant, which encourages cross-cultural exchange and collaboration.
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Pandemic Patterns Explored in “The Fire This Time”
New from Field of Vision, Mariam Ghani’s film The Fire This Time is a stunning visual and historic investigation into the intertwined histories of pandemics, riots, and colonial violence.