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Amy Sherald’s Parables of Black American Life
Sherald knits historic, cinematic, and literary references into many of her artworks, embedding their legacies into the distinct visual world she’s created.
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Parsons Fine Arts MFA Students Help Us Navigate 2025
Artists like Hannah Bang, Andrew Samuel Harrison, Sumaiya Saiyed, and Yeabsera Tabb share ways to relate to major changes beyond our control.
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Is the New Frick Collection Just the Same Old Thing?
The newly renovated Fifth Avenue institution, which houses a treasure trove by any calculation, is a time capsule with a lot to teach us about our own historical moment.
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The Giant Women Who Stomped on Art World Invisibility
One lesson of this compact, extraordinary exhibition of feminist art is that if you’re being ignored, you can do whatever you want — so take up space.
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Still Life Painting That Is Anything But Still
Judith Linhares’s works comprise just a few elements, yet they are bodied forth in endless permutations that convey both whimsy and menace.
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A World at the Edge of Decay and Other Artistic Imaginings
Aaron Gilbert’s sense of time draws us away from the now to a potential future that we are having trouble envisioning.
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The Dizzying Range of UCLA’s MFA Show
Parts I and II of the exhibition demonstrate a vibrant spectrum of aesthetic inquiry — which, like LA’s art scene, resists easy categorization.
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The Violent and Sensual Bodies of Galli
The artist’s ambiguous figures exist in a continual state of metamorphosis between formation and deformation.
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Weegee, the Pop Artist That Never Was
By embracing horror through the larger-than-life persona he constructed, the photographer occupies an odd middle ground between the news media and its parody.
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Cindy Ji Hye Kim Retunes Us to the Land’s Rhythms
In paintings and sculptures portraying laboring bodies, the artist demonstrates that our collective unconsciousness has always been tied to natural cycles.
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Indigenous Art History Has Been Waiting for You to Catch Up
The late Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s final curatorial salvo — the largest show of Native American art to date — carries an elegiac weight, but also thrums with life.
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Anything Can Happen in Geoffrey Todd Smith’s Paintings
Fresh and challenging, Smith’s art sits on the cusp between eccentric abstraction and automated sci-fi figures, and contributes to Chicago’s dense art history.