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Two SWANA Artists’ Vision for a City of the Future
Dahlia Elsayed and Andrew Haik Demirjian imagine “Mustaqbaaaahpolis” as a city free from “extraction, time scarcity, and exploitation.”
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The Complex Fashion History of Colonial Spanish America
An exhibition at Blanton Museum of Art encapsulates the complicated ways in which Indigenous and European traditions cross-pollinated through textiles and accessories.
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Pushing Against the Art World’s Disavowal of Labor
Pittsburgh’s John Kane: Life & Art of an American Workman presents Kane’s experience as a manual laborer as integral to — not separate from — his art.
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The Understated Beauty of Decorated Paper
Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s is a feast for the eyes.
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Taking Landscape Painting to New Heights
Beau Carey and Ian Fishers’ exhibition considers our relationship to the earth, from the top down.
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“Nepo Baby” Memes Set the Internet Ablaze
For some of us, it’s not exactly news that rich and famous people are connected to other rich and famous people.
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Asian-American Identity Through Quiet, Ordinary Gestures
Sometimes, exhibitions about identity demand too much of those bearing the identities, expecting them to speak explicitly to their experience.
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Nellie Mae Rowe’s Story of Freedom
Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe is brimming with examples of the artist’s imaginative allegorical art.
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NYC’s Five Boroughs, Reimagined in Gingerbread
An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrates the Big Apple in the most seasonal (and tastiest) medium of all.
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Required Reading
This week, a mysterious portrait of Joan Didion, considering Carolee Schneemann, privatizing libraries, Dalit discrimination, the "great internet grievance war," and more.
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What’s the Weirdest Ornament You’d Hang on Your Tree?
An exhibition on view at Detroit’s Henry Ford Museum features 7,000 Christmas ornaments, from the traditionally festive to the deeply bizarre.
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Echoes of Joy and Peril in Leda Catunda’s Textiles
The Brazilian artist practices an erasure poetry upon textiles and assembles the results into evocative, semi-sculptural configurations.