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A Devastating and Breathtaking Vision of Climate Change
Dean Byington’s Cassandra warning call in his art reveals the world we know as a facade teetering on the brink of collapse.
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Philip Taaffe Digs Deeper Into the Rabbit Hole
It seems Taaffe is looking at the present as an extinction event, and that one purpose of painting is to bequeath some record of history and time to the future.
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How Nancy Holt Anticipated the Influencer Age
Though Holt's photos come from the mid-20th century, they anticipate 21st-century aesthetics and could be a backdrop in an influencer’s desert pilgrimage.
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Behind the Scenes of Remaking a Feminist Milestone
Reflecting on the five-year process of unearthing and restaging Lucy Lippard’s 1971 exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists.
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Xylor Jane’s Cosmic Grids
The rules that structure Jane's paintings take her to some place strange and fascinating, beautiful and perplexing, mind-boggling and riveting.
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The Pleasures and Pain of Carolee Schneemann's Body Politics
Schneemann's art actions laid bare the continuity between the female body, feminist writing, and sociopolitical acts of protest.
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Airport Art Is Taking Off
Airports across the US have been taking art more seriously in recent years. Have a look.
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For Julie Buffalohead, Animals Express What Words Cannot
There’s something very funny — and unsettling — about Buffalohead's paintings of animals engaged in human situations.
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Modern Menorahs That Break the Mold
From a banana menorah to versions by Dalí and Peter Shire, artists have long remixed the traditional Hanukkah lamp.
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Required Reading
This week, a rise in nuclear fusion, the downfall of the "COVID billionaire," holiday string lights with a twist, and how many people would actually return a lost wallet?
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Pat Steir Accepts Time's Passage With Grace
Steir’s work of the ’90s was the result of physically demanding processes. What happens when you cannot do what you once did?
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The Stirring Political Etchings of Nicolás De Jesús
The Mexican artist’s works reveal the radical possibilities of an indigenous sensibility charged with a keen awareness of politics and art history.