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Required Reading
This week, crossword puzzles on Black culture, the history of International Women’s Day, gender-neutral award shows, and why do fake reviews online fly under our radar?
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What is Holi, the Hindu Festival of Color?
Welcoming spring and the season of harvest, Holi is inherently playful and joyous as it channels the love between Radha and Krishna.
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A Psalm for the Living Artist
If others are “career” artists, Faina Lerman is a “living” artist — her artistic means are inextricable from her life, rather than motivated by the desire to make a living.
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Artists Consider the Concept of Care
Artists such as Leah Clements, Christine Sun Kim, and Jamila Prowse exercise care as responsibility, access, and inclusivity, and fostering a critical dialogue with others.
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How Can Museums Truly Shake Off Their Colonial Legacy?
Representation alone will not end inequity in art museums.
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Grounded in Clay and Moved by Spirit
An exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, curated by over 60 individual members of 21 tribal communities, paves the way for equitable collaborative possibilities.
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Why Is No One Talking About the Artist-Daughters?
We need more support for the women who have to balance an art practice with caregiving for their ailing parents.
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Katie Shulman’s Delicate Dance With Fiber
If the body as a point of inspiration was once an innocent or abstract notion for the fiber artist, her more recent work can no longer avoid the body as battleground.
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Painting the Terrifying Beauty of Abortion-Inducing Flowers
In Plant Parenthood, Alina Bliumis portrays the plants that have been used to terminate pregnancies for hundreds and thousands of years.
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A Women’s History of Global Abstraction
Action, Gesture, Paint is a pointed challenge to the common definition of Abstract Expressionism: White, male, American artists.
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Fela Kefi Leroux, Embracing Blackness at the First World Festival of Black Arts
Beya Othmani presents an exhibition on artist Fela Kefi Leroux's participation in the 1966 festival in Dakar and offers insight into her curatorial process.
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Digital Artists Are Pushing Back Against AI
Using the hashtag “No to AI Art,” artists protest AI image generators' use of their work without permission or compensation.