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“Fasc-isms” Announced as This Year’s Met Gala Theme
An accompanying exhibition at the Costume Institute aims to diversify our understanding of the movement, emphasizing that “fascists are not a monolith.”
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Netflix Releases New Reality TV Spinoff Art Is Blind
The show invites participants to fall in love with a work of art without ever seeing it.
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Archeologists Unearth Fresco Predicting the Coming of “Saint Luigi”
The painting depicts a handsome figure with thickset brows and the Latin words “Mora, Negare, Deponere” (“Delay, Deny, Depose.”)
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Brooklyn Museum Announces “Pay What We Wish” Admissions
The policy is the museum’s newest attempt to shift its financial burden onto its lowest-ranking staff and the public.
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Museum of the American Proud Boy to Open in DC
The initiative is part of President Trump’s push to restore “American greatness” at the Smithsonian.
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You’ve Heard of “The Scream,” Now Get Ready for “The Ick”
Much like the iconic piece, a suite of five “never-before-seen” works tackles big emotions.
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Trump Withdraws US From Venice Biennale, “Too Diverse”
The president called for “a return to showcasing the great art of this country in a context-free void” and “definitely not in a liberal European swamp.”
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Majority of Artists Only Read Reviews of Their Own Work, Survey Finds
Some respondents added that they will occasionally hate-read a negative review of an artist they vehemently dislike, which “just hits different.”
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10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This April
Madam X’s spiritual diagrams, Umar Rashid curates Robert Colescott, Carole Caroompas’s anti-hero journey, 50 years of L.A. Louver, and more.
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Deborah-Joyce Holman’s Quietly Radical Black Femininity
Through abstraction and nonlinearity, Holman invests in cinematic practices that unseat “spectacle” as the prominent mode of Black representation.
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The Mughal Empire’s Paradise on Earth
An exhibition showcases the sophisticated cultural language developed in the Indian subcontinent from around 1560 to 1660 across the reign of three emperors.
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The World’s Biggest Print Fair Returns With Surprises
At once overwhelming and exhilarating, the IFPDA show in New York City is a trip through the gallerina looking-glass of prints from around the globe.