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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.
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The Living Divinations of Ithell Colquhoun
The artist’s dreamy paintings and drawings transcend any specific culture, instead drawing on a perennial understanding of the sacred.
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An Exhibition Makes Absence Present
Works by Ana Mendieta, Derek Jarman, and P. Staff ask us to acknowledge loss — but also to see it as a way into altering the shape of our world.
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The Morgan Museum’s Kafka Show Is … Kafkaesque
In this exhibition, we are relying on the information we’re given to try to attain a mythologized goal that is always out of reach.
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A Celebrated Librarian’s Concealed Life
Known as the “soul of the Morgan,” Belle da Costa Greene established the Morgan Library & Museum’s collection and lived as a “passing” Black woman in the early 20th century.
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François Pain’s Art as Salvation
The artist’s avant-garde video works draw from his time working at an experimental psychiatric hospital in the 1960s–70s.
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What Does It Mean to Really Be Seen?
Perhaps Abraham Lincoln Walker invented these people and the stories that brought them together because he desired the play of recognition between human beings.
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Bruce Nauman Asks if Art Can Exist Without a Viewer
His art cuts to the core of our engagement with art past and present, looking at foundational interactions between viewers, art objects, and art institutions.
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Irving Petlin’s Haunted Visions of History
In his paintings and pastels, the artist-activist turned to symbolism, metaphor, and memory to convey a world where savagery and distress are rampant.