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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.
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The Artists Who Made a “Sculpto-Pictorama” of Manhattan
With a zest for New York City and its people, Ruckus Manhattan by Red Grooms and Mimi Gross chooses celebration over hopelessness.
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Casa Susanna Is a Glimpse Into a Midcentury Refuge for Trans Women
As exciting as it is to see snapshots of this community, it’s just a tiny taste of the vast and long-standing history of trans people around the globe.
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The Asian Modernists of Paris
Across more than 220 works by Asian artists, a landmark exhibition tells a different story of the city’s golden age.
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Helina Metaferia Takes Back the Museum
The Ethiopian-American artist creates her own artifacts to highlight a lineage of Black female activism.
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A Moving Encounter With the Art of Bernard Williams
Along with his studio art, Williams has long worked with the Chicago Public Art Group and his collaborative handiwork can be found throughout the city.
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José María Velasco Lovingly Captured a Changing Mexico
He celebrated the physical entity of Mexico in its exactness, rather than appealing to ingrained nationalistic European sensibilities of history painting.
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The Visual Language of the Nuclear Age
Eighty years after the US bombed Hiroshima, a show tracks the cultural reception of both nuclear weapons and nuclear power.
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For EJ Hill, Art Is an Act of Faith
Without irony, Hill draws on his Catholic upbringing in his current solo exhibition to cultivate a secular spirituality and a space for hope.
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Take a Trip Down the Catwalk With Andy Warhol
With fashion-themed art from the 1950s and ’60s, Andy Warhol: Fashion feels like a private, over-the-shoulder glimpse of Warhol at work.