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Artist Abby Donovan Pursues the Unnameable
The elusive connection between what we can and cannot express summarizes Donovan’s unique trajectory in contemporary art.
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Breaking With Monuments as Institutional Selfies
Thomas J Price’s bronze statues of Black individuals look like people we might know or see out in public, rather than generals and political leaders.
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In Governors Island, Seven Video Artists Imagine Radical Futures
The group exhibition AntiVenom honors the potential of art and activism to transform harmful realities.
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Can AI Help Find the Children of Argentina’s Desaparecidos?
AI images depict what the children born in captivity to victims of the dictatorship might look like today, but some have concerns about the tool's limitations.
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The Rampant Erasure of Muslim Heritage in India
The charred walls of the Azizia library, torched during an extremist riot along with its 4,500 books, are a reminder of the violence of the Hindu nationalist mob.
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Hannah Barrett’s Monsters Envision a World Beyond Gender
The characters populating the artist’s paintings subvert the gender binary by combining masculine dandy finery with high femme elements.
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A Trove of Rarely Seen Photographs of Revolutionary Black Women
An exhibition at the Alice Austen House in Staten Island showcases Jean Weisinger’s formidable body of portraiture — and finally tells the photographer’s story.
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A Fitting Tribute to Carrie Mae Weems's Monumentality
A show at the Barbican Art Gallery reveals the importance of considering the politics of display when it comes to an artist who consistently implores us to do so.
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New Curatorial Visions From South Asia, Tunisia, and Across the US
Online curatorial projects by Dakota Noot, Dr. Kelli Morgan, Sadaf Padder, Beya Othmani, and Angelina Lippert explore new currents in curational research.
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Los Angeles Artists Find Community in Mysticism
The city’s complex history of capital and violence is what makes the intersection of art and magic so potent, opening doors for healing and reparations.
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Required Reading
This week, Brooklyn’s perpetual stew, the harms of “professionalism,” antique pencil sharpeners, Bratz respond to Barbenheimer, and much more.
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An Incomplete Portrait of Oskar Kokoschka
The Guggenheim Bilbao’s retrospective of the rebellious 20th-century Viennese artist features over 120 works, but leaves us wanting more.