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Ai Weiwei Plumbs His Chaotic Childhood in New Memoir
Ai Weiwei’s childhood recollections are vividly violent.
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What Artists Cook Up in Their Kitchens
It turns out that making a dish and making a work of art have a fair amount in common.
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Important "Arts and Crafts" Architecture Archive Gifted to the Huntington Library
The gift will allow the institution to incorporate the Greene brothers' archives into its online systems to make it searchable online.
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Met Museum Reimagines the Period Room Through the Lens of Afrofuturism
From Njideka Akunyili Crosby to Elizabeth Catlett, Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room integrates works by Black creators from the past to the present.
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Reflecting on the Glamorous, Political, and Artistic Covers of Ebony Magazine
The pages of the popular magazine not only instilled pride in Black communities, but also documented and contextualized their realities.
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Dawn DeDeaux Connects Social Justice and Environmentalism in a Retrospective at the New Orleans Museum of Art
In a retrospective on view at NOMA, Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds demonstrates the artist’s longstanding concern with the most pressing issues of our time.
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Milwaukee Art Museum Exhibition Features Monumental New Mural by Derrick Adams
The artist dedicates this site-specific installation to “the perseverance of Black Americans in their pursuit of happiness.”
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CalArts Cultivates an Environment of Artistic Experimentation and Free Creative Exploration
The institute awarded more than $25.7 million in scholarships to 95% of degree-seeking students this past academic year.
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Nigerian Artist Ken Nwadiogbu Creates NFTs for Voice
As part of his Voice NFT Residency, the multidisciplinary artist and six collaborators explore identity, migration, and other pressing issues.
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Required Reading
This week, Bored Yacht Club's NFT millions, fry bread, new space race capitalism, the legacy of Nazi art, and more.
Opportunities
Opportunities in November 2021
From support grants and open calls to a number of residencies and fellowships for artists and art historians, a list of opportunities that artists, writers, and art workers can apply for each month.
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Lennart Anderson’s Blindness and Vision
The artist, who had macular degeneration, closely scrutinized his subjects, even as he fictionalized them.