Performance
The Terrors of Whiteness in Wu Tsang's Moby Dick
The experimental film, accompanied by live music, pictures the ecocide that a violently extractive ideology of whiteness produces.
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Unearthing Austin's Overlooked Chicano Art History
A new exhibition at the Mexic-Arte Museum reveals the crucial but under-recognized role that the Chicano art movement played in Austin’s history and culture.
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Thousands Rally for Abortion Rights in NYC
Photographer Kisha Bari captured a demonstration at Foley Square in Manhattan, one of several across the city and nation.
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Woman Finds 2,000-Year-Old Roman Bust at a Texas Goodwill
The sculpture, which she bought for $34.99, is now on view at the San Antonio Museum of Art.
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Oklahoma's Beloved Statue of Native American Ballerina Stolen and Sold for $250
A sculpture of Marjorie Tallchief, a ballerina of Osage descent, was stolen from the Tulsa Historical Society and sold for parts to a recycling center.
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A Poignant Tribute to Abortion Rights, Sold to Support Reproductive Freedom
With the overturning of Roe v. Wade a likely reality, Laia Abril and Carmen Winant’s print “The Right to Choose” has taken on a new and terrifying resonance.
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Jeffrey Gibson’s Solo Exhibition The Body Electric Opens at SITE Santa Fe
This comprehensive survey of Gibson’s multi-decade practice highlights his purposeful use of material, provocative language, and collaborative community-rooted performances.
Art
“Do We Still Recognize Ourselves?”
In an age when everything is called into doubt, Squeak Carnwath’s concern with seeing carries a deep urgency.
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Required Reading
This week, reactions to the leaked Supreme Court draft to overturn abortion rights, La Malinche gets an exhibition, Eric Adams brings his "swagger" to the Met Gala, and what did Leonardo get wrong about trees?
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Reveling in the Ruins of the Past
In attempting to convey atrocities that confound language, artist Phyllida Barlow comes up against a paradox with no easy resolution.
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Artists Reflect on the Harms of Data Collection
For her first museum exhibition, Grace Rosario Perkins invited four other artists to ponder the definition of data, centering questions about how it's collected, authenticated, documented, and distributed — and by whom.
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Dana Lok Beckons the Unknowable
Lok's paintings reveal seemingly straightforward objects and events to be strange, slippery, and utterly beguiling.