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Daniel Boccato, the Ghost Whisperer
In an interview with Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn-based nonbinary artist shares new sculptures inspired by the tension between the material and the spectral.
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Paris’s Louvre Museum Is Safeguarding Ukrainian Antiquities
The 16 medieval works were secretly evacuated from the Khanenko Museum in Kyiv after a Russian missile strike last October.
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The International African American Museum Is Finally Opening
The long-awaited institution will be inaugurated days after Juneteenth and as South Carolina lawmakers continue to push bans on critical race theory.
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Museum Acquires Iconic Japanese "Business Capsule"
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art now owns a housing micro-unit salvaged from the demolished Nakagin Capsule Tower that once stood in Tokyo.
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Turiya Adkins Flirts With the Void
In the art of Turiya Adkins, Black people have long defied gravity, our existence has long depended on our uncanny capacity for flight.
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How Long Must We Sing This Song?
Dread Scott channels Nina Simone through works that sing of pain and endurance.
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Avery Z. Nelson on Painting Conflicting Realities
In the plurality of meaning and language, the Brooklyn-based trans nonbinary artist finds a resonant analogy for their experience of the world.
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In NYC Protest, Activists Tell Meta to Stop Deleting Art
In a daylong action on June 15, a group of organizers leafletted five Manhattan art institutions before protesting outside Meta’s offices in Noho.
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Canal Projects Presents Dwelling
Marcus Jahmal, Cheyenne Julien, Ho Jae Kim, Kenrick McFarlane, Kyung-Me, and Woody De Othello address self-representation and ideas of home in this NYC exhibition.
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Constructing Puerto Rican Identity in the 1950s Through Craft, Lists, and Fairs
What untold stories do these crafts hold that can expand and question narratives regarding knowledge, identity, and aesthetics?
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Kentucky’s Black Craft Trail and the Unequal Path from Berea College to Lincoln Institute
The relationship between Berea College and Lincoln Institute is marked by racism, “benevolent” White donors, and Black educators who equipped Black youth with skills in industrial trades.
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The Miraculous Life of an Early Black American Abolitionist and Craftsman
James Forten was a decolonizer, feminist, father, husband, and craftsman extraordinaire, an organizer, a leader of the elite free community of African Americans.