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The Morgan Library & Museum Presents Another Tradition: Drawings by Black Artists from the American South

This exhibition celebrates the Morgan’s recent acquisition of drawings by Thornton Dial, Nellie Mae Rowe, Henry Speller, Luster Willis, and Purvis Young.

Introducing the World’s First Museum for Artist-built Environments

Part of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the Art Preserve also functions as a curated collection facility and is filled with immersive installations.

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Required Reading

This week, LA's new Academy Museum, the intersections of anti-Blackness and anti-fatness, a largely unknown 19th century Black theater in NYC, sign language interpreters, and more.

Art

The Problematic Allure of Titian’s Poesie Paintings

Titian’s paintings are masterpieces, with all the complications of the term.

Opinion

The Many Problems with Deana Lawson’s Photographs

Lawson’s images, and the ways that she has discussed her process, seem to be actively reproducing the kind of big-dick energy power dynamics of White male artists who also claim mastery over their subject matter.

Film

With The Gaze, Barry Jenkins Asks Us to Reflect on Black Trauma Narratives

Jenkins’s new short film, the centerpiece of a MoMI exhibit on The Underground Railroad, uses his signature techniques to confront the viewer.

Film

Bob Ross the Dreamer Got a Rude Awakening

The new documentary Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed pulls back the curtain to expose the realities of Bob Ross, Inc. but does it go far enough?

Art

Katherine Bradford Mosaic Murals Make a Manhattan Subway Station Shine

You don't need a train ticket to see the five glass mosaic murals by Bradford at the L train 1 Avenue stop.

Art

A Survey of Aquatint Prints Throughout History, From François Boucher to Goya

An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art will trace the technique’s development through Europe, starting in the late 1700s.

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Nigerian Artists Offer to Swap Work for British Museum’s Benin Bronzes

"We never stopped making the bronzes even after those ones were stolen," said a founding member of the Ahiamwen Guild. "I think we make them even better now."

Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis Examine the 600 Million Year History of Their Studio Space

Through "Historic Site," an 8-foot-tall plaque and Historic Sight, a year-long rotating exhibition in Pittsburgh, the Black Cube Fellows investigate how history is constructed, remembered, and retold.

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