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Required Reading
This week, satellite images capture lines of cars carrying Armenians fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh, an Ethiopian painting looted by the British Museum, digitizing Urdu script, and much more.
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An Italian Artist Who Took On American Capitalism
Mario Schifano moved nimbly among different modes and never settled into a style, which sets him apart from many of his contemporaries.
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Remembering a Pioneer of Louisville’s Black Avant-Garde
When White-dominated arts institutions would not offer them opportunities, Robert L. Douglas and other Louisville Black artists organized together to create their own art communities.
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Sarah K. Khan’s Feminist Take on a 16th-Century Cookbook
Her work brilliantly reframes age-old storylines from a Persian cookbook as modern allegories for female liberation.
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Christian Rogers’s Cruising Paradise
The artist’s solo exhibition Heaven on Earth is a fluorescent floral feast for the eyes.
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Divya Mehra Releases Canada’s Colonial Genies
Two colossal inflatable sculptures by the Winnipeg-based artist prod the colonial roots of economic and racial inequality in the country.
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DC’s National Cathedral Unveils Kerry James Marshall Stained-Glass Windows
Titled Now and Forever, the new designs honor the ongoing pursuit for racial equality in a country built on systemic oppression.
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On Labor and Race in Great Depression America
Art for the Millions at the Met Museum foregrounds the perspectives of women and people of color in the 1930s in the wake of industrialized labor.
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The Poetry of Place in Teresa Baker’s Art
Baker’s art exudes the deep and spiritual connection to nature that she has gained from her Mandan/Hidatsa family.
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When Museum Workers Take Over Their Institutions' Walls
The Met’s staff art exhibition made headlines when it opened to the public last year. As it turns out, these shows are anything but rare.
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What is This? Artwork for Ants?
“Our culture is far richer with the inclusion of other life forms,” says Catherine Chalmers, an artist who collaborates with a collective of wild ants to create tiny, Abstract Expressionist “Antworks.”
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What’s Left to Say About Picasso?
A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn at The Met is a compact, simple display, but the work and research it contains is diminished by being so cut off from its historical and personal contexts.