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A Radically Inclusive Vision of the Jewish Tzitzit
LA-based artists Julie Weitz and Jill Spector are reimagining the traditional Jewish garment to include a wide spectrum of identities.
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History Is Not an Open Book
The 1969 exhibition 5 + 1, and now Revisiting 5 + 1, are reminders that the history of Black Art in the United States is diverse rather than monolithic.
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Omar Ba Paints the Pride and Pain of the Colonized
The artist’s solo US museum debut at the Baltimore Museum of Art is a contemptuous, at times satirical, take on oppression that gives way to a new history.
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Latinidad On Its Own Terms
Who tells a tale adds a tail: Latin America and contemporary art explores contemporary Latin American art without conforming to external expectations.
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Every Digital Artwork Starts With a Sketch
Simulation Sketchbook takes as its starting point the reality that digital artists, like all artists, sketch out their work as well.
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The Turner Prize Wrestles With an Identity Crisis
How does a selective competition fit with the contemporary art world’s aspirations toward greater inclusivity?
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Who Gets to Honor Native Women in the US?
“Dignity of Earth and Sky,” unveiled in 2016, raises questions about who should depict Native people and how they should be portrayed.
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Truth-Telling Confronts the Colonial Gaze
In this online exhibition, Indigenous artists reclaim realities long denied them by US and Canadian federal governments — including moments of collective reverie.
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How an LA Football Stadium Became a Home for Art
With two exhibitions at SoFi Stadium, the Kinsey African American Art & History Collection seeks to engage a different art audience.
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War, Bloodshed, and the German Grotesque
The works that best exemplify a uniquely German grotesque in Reexamining the Grotesque are those that reflect the war and Weimar years.
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Graham Nickson's Empathic Formalism
Nickson's interests lie in the individual’s place in a world shaped by immensities of land and water, sky and cloud.
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Institutional Critique That Makes You Laugh and Cry
Miguel Calderón examines class, violence, and corruption in Mexican society with macabre, irreverent humor.