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Leigh Bowery Was His Own Artwork
In a contemporary society made creatively bland by the homogenizing factor of social media, one yearns again for such an original artist.
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Vermeer and the Lost Art of Love Letters
Though small, Vermeer’s Love Letters at the Frick is a deep dive into the artist’s depictions of women and their letters of endearment.
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The Power of Making Art From a Prison Cell
A show demonstrates how deeply meaningful creative processes can be for incarcerated people and the larger public.
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Jin Meyerson’s Orbits of Belonging
Across luminous, fragmented paintings in SAFE SPACE, the Korean diasporic artist invites us into an ongoing search for respite amid the dislocation of hybrid identity.
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James Bidgood’s Dreamy Homoerotica
Best known for his cult film, Pink Narcissus, Bidgood’s 1960s photographs of men as mythological figures are equally alluring.
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Agnès Varda’s Photographic Odes to Queer Paris
Varda spent much of her 20s photographing the queer community of Montparnasse, where she shared a life, home, and creative practice with sculptor Valentine Schlegel.
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Connecting the Heavens and Earth Through Art
From the Cosmos to the Commons reminds us that humanity has struggled to explain and orient itself under the same skies since time immemorial.
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Dana Awartani’s Gentle Reparation of Gaza
This beautiful and understated show provides a moving foil to the horror of Israel’s war in Palestine.
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Sonya Clark’s Communal Tapestry
A mid-career survey at two Houston institutions redirects discourse from her hair works toward her fiber and collaborative works.
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Caribbean Artists Take on the Myth of Tropical Escapism
The art in Land. Sea. Sugar. Salt. reflects on the vastness and precarity of the Caribbean landscape, the ebb and flow of its rising sea levels, and coastline erosion.
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A Photographic History of Queer Intimacy
A show of more than 270 works dating from the mid-19th century to now tells of evolving technology and customs.
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Chinese Bronzes Blur the Line Between Original and Copy
An exhibition champions 12th-to-19th-century bronzes dismissed as copies, yet struggles with its own definitions of originality.