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After Modernism Is a Lesson in Curating
This exhibition of works from the Neumann family collection takes a unique approach, bringing University of Pennsylvania art students into the curatorial process.
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Luis Fernando Benedit Exposed the Politics of World-Making
The artist’s bioart habitats eerily reflect human environments where sociopolitical and socioeconomic cultural conditions force the illusion of standardization as a natural state.
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Rebecca Purdum’s Art Beyond Language
Purdum’s layered and scraped-away paintings may resemble aspects of the natural world but they allude to an experience beyond language.
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What Can Art Expose About Us?
Exposure at Ulterior Gallery might not offer the quick answers our ever-shrinking attention spans demand, but much in this show is worth a second view.
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Artists Meditate on the Rose as a Symbol
The injunction of a group show centered around the multivalent flower is to wander the field and pluck what suits you.
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Deborah-Joyce Holman’s Quietly Radical Black Femininity
Through abstraction and nonlinearity, Holman invests in cinematic practices that unseat “spectacle” as the prominent mode of Black representation.
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The Mughal Empire’s Paradise on Earth
An exhibition showcases the sophisticated cultural language developed in the Indian subcontinent from around 1560 to 1660 across the reign of three emperors.
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A Brazilian Artist’s Intergalactic Wool Paintings
In A Head Full of Planets, Madalena Santos Reinbolt’s art celebrates her own identity and homeland, despite her marginalized status as a Black woman from rural Brazil.
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Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme Refuse to Forget
As the US government expunges identities through words and names, the artists’ online archive of videos proposes that holding onto these moments is a powerful political act.
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An Artist Captures Life’s Relentless Too-Muchness
David Kennedy Cutler captures a time in which image has fully metastasized into reality — a mediated world where everything is always on and calling for you.
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Catherine Murphy Makes the Ordinary Inexplicable
The artist found a way to expand the parameters of observational painting, causing us to look inward and reflect upon what we see.
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Rewriting Digital Art in Nonbinary Code
Queering Digital is a refusal to be silent or retreat from the government’s tyranny through works that assert the artists’ identities and politics.