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Global Tourism Was Built on Headless Blemmyes
The Book of Marvels is the kind of show that’s hard to avoid at archival art institutions, wherein problematic historical content, aesthetic appeal, and fantasy all intersect.
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An Exhibition That Looks to the Bronx for Inspiration
“Working Knowledge” is deeply attuned to the Bronx community it emerges from — an attentiveness that greatly enhances its significance.
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Will the Real Cimabue Please Stand Up?
The Louvre’s conservation of two Cimabue paintings led its curators to reassess the artist not as a predecessor to the Renaissance masters but on his own merits.
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The UCLA MFA Show Proves We’ve Got to Learn From Students
Far from perfect, their work illustrates the kind of mess, ambition, and attention that many artists would be lucky to have.
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When Modernity Grabbed Poetry By Its Heels
Feeling, intuiting the swing, sway, and pressures of life, with all its tumult, its blare, its bounce, and its heave, were what really counted in modern poetry.
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The Courtauld’s Impressionism Show Is a Victim of Corporate Curating
It seems that the philanthropic funds that enable shows like this are at the expense of art historical depth and integrity, perhaps even curators’ jobs.
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Los Angeles as Site for Diasporic Ghosts
In paintings, ceramics, and installations, Rachel Hakimian Emenaker depicts scenes of gentrification, religion, and homeland.
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Weaving That Opens to the World and Heavens
Claudia Alarcón and the Wichí women weavers who compose the collective Silät create artworks that seem to channel land and celestial bodies.
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When Graffiti Met Conceptual Art
“Gordon Matta-Clark: NYC Graffiti 1972/3” has the feel of a time capsule that never veers too far into didacticism, while the art almost makes you feel like you’re there.
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Nanette Carter’s Abstract Balancing Act
In this retrospective, the Montclair-raised artist gives the viewer a look at an artistic language that continues to evolve and shed layers to reveal its essence.
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Pratt’s MFA Exhibition Mirrors These Disjointive Times
The exhibition ruptures space to unlock novel metaphors for the abject moral environment of 2025.
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Nancy Elizabeth Prophet Never Backed Down to the Art World
The trailblazing Afro-Indigenous sculptor’s life and everlasting impact are the subject of a long-overdue retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum.