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Saya Woolfalk Toys With Future Worlds
The hybridized energy of Woolfalk's art is infectious; it permeates everything we see, while prodding us to question what we imagine the future might look like.
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The First Homosexuals Is a Defiant Celebration of LGBTQ+ Life
The exhibition is diffuse with a sense of urgency to document this history against aggravated societal and governmental threats of erasure.
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Ruth Asawa Showed Us the Way to an Artistic Life
Asawa gracefully wove together many sides — an innovative and singular artist, a tireless advocate for arts education, a community builder, and a loving wife and mother.
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Bas Jan Ader Made Fate Into an Art
So much of what Ader explored was about surrendering to destiny, but also about heeding internal calls — to adventure, open horizons, and the sublime.
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150 Years of American Art Comes to Life
A show at the Art Students League leans on the names of its alumni and the aura of its environs, but that’s enough.
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For Chloe Dzubilo, Art and Advocacy Were Inseparable
As an HIV-positive trans woman and advocate, Dzubilo faced challenges that should have been history by the early 2000s, yet persist today.
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The Brilliance and Privilege of Jane Austen and Julia Margaret Cameron
It is crucial to grapple with the colonial structures that helped sustain the lives and work of the two 19th-century contemporaries, both celebrated as feminist heroines.
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The Pliable Philosophy of Brazilian Geometric Art
An exhibition emphasizes the fluidity between Brazil’s Constructivist, Concrete, and Neo-Concrete movements.
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How Baroque Rome Saw the World Through Art
Global Baroque surveys the triumphant internationalism of a new age of vast and rapid interchanges of art and culture, with Rome at its center.
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Ecological Art That’s Literally Alive
The artworks in Spora, unfolding over three years at the Swiss Institute, linger in the mind, its interconnections multiplying like spores.
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When Hilma af Klint Found the Soul in Plants
Her Nature Studies invoke the promise of something greater, a direct line from the material world to the spiritual experience that art is presumed to offer.
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A God’s-Eye-View of Earth’s Destruction
Edward Burtynsky's photographs once offered a prescient vision of large-scale anthropogenic changes; now, they feel more and more like a pretext for aesthetic dazzle.