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Otis College MFA Students Remake Los Angeles
Graduates display the breadth of LA’s institutional art ecosystem today, offering a range of approaches to making art this side of the Mississippi.
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Patty Chang Looks Into the Abyss
The artist meditates on motherhood, and more broadly, on empathy, connection, and violence across space, species, and time.
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Myrlande Constant Immerses Us in Opulence
Standing before Constant’s sumptuous embroideries, shimmering with beads and sequins, is awe-inspiring and joyfully disorienting.
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A Vision of Design That Transcends Empire’s Grid
Reverberations decenters anthropocentrism, builds upon non-Western cosmologies, and harnesses alternative knowledge-keeping.
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The Banality of the American Dream
Objects like beds, houses, and diamond rings, and the successful middle-class life they represent, are both desired and stultifying in Suellen Rocca’s art.
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California’s New Slang
From airbrushed lettering of lowriders to silkscreen and sign-painting, an exhibition flexes the state’s wide-ranging visual language.
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Artists’ Monuments to the Great Migration
Histories need to be unearthed, recorded, studied, intersected, sung, paraded, and learned, and two Chicago shows do that for the Great Migration.
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Was Rembrandt Inspired by the Story of Queen Esther?
A show argues that the Jewish tale was interpreted as a symbol of liberation from Spanish rule in 17th-century Dutch society.
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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.