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Painting Was His First Love, But Poetry Got in the Way
An exhibition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s work is an ode to the great possibilities of the page by a 20th-century literary icon.
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Beverly Semmes’s Feminist Palimpsests
Women’s bodies are a locus for corrosive stereotypes and ebullient individuality in the artist’s sculpture, painting, fashion, and more.
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An Artist and a Historian Plumb Gynecology’s Hidden Histories
Nao Bustamante and Wendy Kline explore the racist, sexist, would-be-very-illegal-today methods through which we’ve come to understand the medical field.
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Keith Haring Is Getting the Biopic Treatment
The TV series about the graffiti and pop art icon and activist will be based on a biography of the artist published last year.
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Passports, Prints, and Protest at the NY Art Book Fair
The indie presses exhibiting at Printed Matter’s annual fair, now back at MoMA PS1, put an irreverent twist on the subversive histories of radical publishing.
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Art in General, Nonprofit Champion of Early-Career Artists, Is Reopening
The alternative New York arts organization, which closed its doors in 2020, is back with a nomadic model and a fundraising exhibition.
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A Defiant Gaza Biennale Opens in New York City
From Gaza to the World at Recess in Brooklyn, the show's first North American stop, brings together works by 25 Palestinian artists.
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Two Artists Withdraw From Smithsonian Symposium
Nicholas Galanin and Margarita Cabrera said the decision to make the event private is a form of silencing participants amid Trump’s attacks on the institution.
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Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis
The Museum at FIT presents the first exhibition on the cultural history of fashion and psychoanalysis, bringing together nearly 100 looks by designers from Schiaparelli to McQueen.
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Trellis Art Fund Awards 12 Artists 2025 Milestone Grants
Grantees from across the United States will each receive an unrestricted $100,000 award to sustain their creative practices over two years.
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Required Reading
This week: Nan Goldin interviews Mahmoud Khalil, Jane Austen and money, Wikipedia under attack, Etsy witches, trolling the National Guard in DC, and more.
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Jeffrey Gibson’s Guardian Animals Grace The Met’s Facade
The artist’s bronze sculptures for the museum’s exterior suggest the merging of the natural and the artistic, the real and the mythical.