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I Hate to Admit it, But I Loved the Armory Show
Yes, it sometimes felt like a circus — but circuses are fun, and art fairs, typically, are not.
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Apply for a 2024–2025 Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Fellowships at SAAM and its Renwick Gallery provide funding, collections access, and professional advancement to scholars researching US art, craft, and visual culture.
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Boston’s Gardner Museum Closes Over Climate Protest
Climate activists say they wanted to use the museum as a platform to "discuss the loss of more than 1 million species from our planet.”
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Required Reading
This week, how to break up with your art-snob boyfriend, a pioneering woman graffiti artist, the rot in Rotten Tomatoes, and what would Ursula K. Le Guin have to say about AI-generated art?
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Searing Memes About Burning Man’s Muddy Fiasco
“Burning Man is all about getting out of your comfort zone” is what many techies must’ve told themselves.
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The Imperfect Charm of Spring Break Art Show
Though lacking much of its former spark, the show continues to provide a niche for artists outside of the market-driven fair sphere.
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What Did the Lion Tell the Tiger?
While Wu Junyong is deeply connected to his love of Chinese myths, folktales, and language, his subjects underscore his break with the past.
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A Mother and Daughter Find Each Other in Art
Mary Ann Unger worked against the idea of the solitary (male) genius, creating a model of life and work that empowers artists like her daughter, Eve Biddle.
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A Visit to Tulsa’s Center for Queer Prairie Studies
Slathered in bubblegum pink paint, the exhibition space is adorned with paintings and personal belongings of queer Prairie icons including Adah Robinson, Bruce Goff, and Lynn Riggs.
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Your Armory Week Bingo Card Is Here
Some things never change, like the over-botoxed art collector and the $25 cold sandwich.
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The National Arts Club Presents In a New Light: American Impressionism 1870–1940
More than 130 works by influential American Impressionists are on view in a special exhibition at the historic Gramercy Park club in NYC. Admission is free.
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142-Year-Old Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Michigan
After a two-year search, maritime historians Brendon Baillod and Bob Jaeck say they’ve found the “perfectly intact” Trinidad wreck off the coast of Wisconsin.