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In Celebration of Unloveliness
We go to Raphael for idealized beauty. But what if a painting were the opposite of beautiful, and utterly arresting for that very reason?
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The Never-Before-Seen Photographs of Barkley L. Hendricks
Most people know the artist for his paintings gracefully embodying the Black experience in America. In an upcoming exhibition, his photographs take center stage.
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Kate Laster Carves Ancestral Memory Into Paper
“My art is about the people we carry with us,” she told Hyperallergic.
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Required Reading
This week, the death of handwriting, how to spot far-right imagery, queerness is African, and is breakfast a colonial construct?
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Art for the End of Time
There are no common moves among artists in The Chicago Cli-Fi Library, except environmental grief as expressed through art-making.
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Peter Shear Lets Paint Be
The position Shear has been defining in his work is one that accepts, contemplates, and reimagines the possibilities of abstract painting.
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The Artist Who Sailed With Saints
Born with a speech impediment that made him unintelligible to many people, Lemko artist Nikifor turned to drawing as a means of communication.
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A Jewish-American Artist's Epiphanies About Palestine
“As a Jewish-American person, there’s a story out there that I have not been privy to,” says Toby Millman.
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Minerva Cuevas Strikes the Gods of Environmental Destruction
In taking aim at contemporary corporations, especially oil companies, Cuevas draws a connection between colonization, trade, and the devastation of the natural world.
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Chitra Ganesh's Coloring Book Resists Queer Erasure
Queer Power! A Time Travelling Coloring Book honors LGBTQI+ activists and cultural icons.
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Queering the Jewish Mikvah
Artist Nicki Green sees the traditional bathing ritual as a site where trans and nonbinary people can embrace their gender identity.
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Josephine Halvorson Paints to Remember
She invites the viewer to contemplate all the ways we mark and live in time, and how much of what we record and keep we will eventually dispose of.