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Required Reading
This week, threats to Silk Road monuments, the origins of “the male gaze,” social commentary in Miyazaki films, and how to explain homophobia to your straight friends.
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Miniature Artist’s Tiny Monet Reunited With Original
Peruvian artist Ana Sofía Casaverde visited the National Gallery of Art to see Monet’s “Woman With a Parasol,” an artwork she painstakingly copied with a needle.
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Kim Uchiyama Captures the Light of Sicily
Uchiyama’s question was how to capture the collision between nature and the manmade, the changing light and aging ruins she encountered in Sicily
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Seeing Ourselves Through Martha Alf’s Paintings of Toilet Paper Rolls
Alf transformed rolls of toilet paper and paper towels into monolithic altars set against a backdrop resembling an Ellsworth Kelly geometric abstraction.
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In a Queens Mini-Mall, an Unlikely Art Show Brings Locals Together
Home-o-Stasis is a community-driven exhibition about the lives and landmarks that make up Flushing’s unique ecosystem.
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Duane Linklater’s Messy Notions of Identity
The Native artist’s simultaneity of diverse references obliterates tidy notions of identity, while being transparently true to his own biography, aesthetics, and heritage.
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David Amico Brings LA’s Streets Into the Gallery
For years, Amico has driven around Los Angeles early in the morning and taken photographs in industrial neighborhoods of walls and surfaces.
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The Sensual Politics of Jochen Klein
In Klein’s work, the critical structure and the sheer pleasure of painting are inextricable.
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SVA’s MFA Students Want You to Unplug
An AI with eyeballs, an experiment in distraction, and “meme-ing academia” take center stage in the Photography, Video and Related Media thesis show.
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Excavating Craft Histories Through Archives
The 2023 Craft Archive Fellows will present their research on underrepresented craft histories in an online event hosted by the Center for Craft and moderated by Hyperallergic editor-in-chief Hrag Vartanian.
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What Would a Truly Critical Picasso Exhibition Look Like?
A 21st-century institution cannot center Picasso’s legacy without also foregrounding the global forms, artists, and practices that remain omitted from the Euro-American canon of Cubist and Abstract art.
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Required Reading
This week, Renaissance astrology charts, World’s Fair art hidden around NYC, the virtues of a cluttered home, “pretty privilege” discourse returns, and much more.