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This week: archiving BLM protest art, Walt Whitman selfies, the legacy of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, being Black at art school, hummingbird evolution, and much more.
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Tamara Lanier on Her Historic Victory Against Harvard University
In the aftermath of the school’s agreement to relinquish the daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors, Lanier spoke to Hyperallergic about her protracted battle for justice and a new home for the photographs.
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How to Get a Read on Rashid Johnson
There is much reading going on in A Poem for Deep Thinkers at the Guggenheim, but I wonder where the apprehended knowledge shows up.
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A New Banksy Mural Is a Beacon of Nope
The anonymous artist’s latest may have a personal touch, but it’s still another installment in what feels like a series of works stifled by surveillance and media fatigue.
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A View From the Easel
“When the spirit moves me and the work goes well, I dance.”
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Plásmata 3: We’ve met before, haven’t we?
Onassis Stegi presents an immersive open-air biennale in Athens featuring visual art, music, cinema, performances, and more.
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Wen-Jen Deng: The Embedded Stitch
Contemporary Fiber Art from Taiwan
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Sebastião Salgado, Unflinching Documentary Photographer, Dies at 81
Spurred on by a desire to document his encounters and surroundings, the Brazilian photographer captured the realities of marginalized people around the world.
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“Mother Pigeon,” the Artist Fighting to Save NYC’s Urban Birds
Tina Piña Trachtenburg is set on finding the culprits behind a recent surge in pigeon disappearances throughout the city.
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Lotus L. Kang’s Hopeful Doom Scrolling
The artist challenges the expectation that continual creation and a predetermined morbid fate are contradictory.
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Jewelry Deserves a Place in Art History
Beyond Adornment explores what the depiction of jewelry in art says about adornment, artists, and their subjects, from Charlemagne to Frida Kahlo.
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The Private Calligraphy of Henri Michaux
The poet turned to psychedelics to discover the nature of his own consciousness, producing inscrutable drawings that alternately vibrate until they blur, or wash gently to and fro.