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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.
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Dorothy Hood’s Landscapes of the Psyche
Labels such as “Modernism,” “Surrealism,” or “Color Field” fall away in the abstract painter’s first New York show in half a century.
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Noah Davis’s Black American Arcadia
Davis portrayed scenes in which Black people could truly recognize themselves, eschewing stereotypical depictions and imbuing his subjects with a sense of the surreal.
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“Work From Home” Takes on New Meaning at CalArts’s Postgrad MFA Show
The increasingly blurred boundaries between labor and domesticity are the subject of an exhibition of 24 artists who graduated from the program last year.
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The Shapeshifting Paintings of Kelly Sinnapah Mary
The various iterations of the artist’s schoolgirl avatar allude to a burgeoning womanhood at a crossroads of celestial being and commonality.
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An Artist’s Songs for the Armenian Diaspora
With the stringed qanun as its beating heart, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian’s show explores how music crosses boundaries and preserves collective memory.
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How Do You Paint Language?
A group show curated by Hilton Als meditates on words in the visual arts, but wields silence in ways that verge on obstinate obscurity.
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Rashaad Newsome's Riveting Artistic Universe Continues to Expand
Using projections, artworks, spoken word, music, and dance, Newsome continues to push the boundaries of his artistic vision.
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Jennifer Packer Shows Us the Responsibility of Seeing
Most everything in this show, is unsure, a maybe, might be there, might not be, could fulfill your hopes, might leave them by the side of the road.