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The Many Shades of Iran’s Protest Art
In the four decades since the Islamic Revolution, Iranian artists have used clever tactics and unconventional modes of art-making to display disobedience.
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Co-Creating With Fungal Mold
Silas Inoue’s “mold paintings” set a dark, suggestive mood.
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A Neurodivergent Artist Asserts His Agency
The power of Mike Hack's art lies not just in his slyly irreverent interventions but in the fact that these interventions come from within the autistic community.
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The Offhand Beauty of Houston’s Third Ward
Colby Deal’s photographs capture very little on an individual basis, but an entire world when taken in aggregate.
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Wild Pigment Project Embraces Reciprocal Foraging at Santa Fe’s form & concept
Asking what it means to work with materials gathered in wild places, this exhibition features work by an international group of artists and traditional practitioners.
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Cabinet Presents And Warren Niesłuchowski Was There: Guest, Host, Ghost
This New York exhibition explores Niesłuchowski’s decision at the age of 57 to have no home of his own and live permanently as the guest of others.
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Cey Adams Celebrates 40 Years of Art and Design at Boston University Art Galleries
This career retrospective features over 60 works that encompass Adams’s multiple mediums, from graffiti to pop art.
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Billy Al Bengston, LA Painter With a Contrarian Streak, Dies at 88
In his hard-edged abstractions, Bengston made the direct center of his paintings the focal point, a cardinal sin according to his art school teachers.
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Philadelphia Gives Boarded-Up Columbus Statue Italian Flag Paint Job
Councilman Mark Squilla spearheaded the initiative in support of the Italian-American community, a move some find offensive on Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
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Whoops! Turns Out Vermeer Didn’t Paint “Girl With a Flute”
The National Gallery of Art discovered that a student or associate painted the famous work.
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Beleaguered Philadelphia Museum of Art Disables Social Media Comments
As union members continue their indefinite strike, the museum’s social media profiles were flooded with messages of support for workers.
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Seven New Art Spaces to Visit in Manhattan
From a basement gallery to a repurposed legendary punk-rock nightclub, these new kids on the block have something for everyone.