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Two Artist Friends Look to Their Roots for the Future
Both Don Ed Hardy and Laurie Steelink refuse to adhere to traditional artistic hierarchies, an attitude they have shared throughout their 30-year friendship.
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The Spun-Glass Dress That Made a Splash at the World’s Fair
It took over 37 hours to pull 1,900 miles of glass filament to create the garment, now on view at the Toledo Museum of Art.
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Ways of Seeing, According to Roberto Gil de Montes
Nothing on the canvas wholly captures what it means to belong on land or at sea.
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Torkwase Dyson Seeks Black Liberation Through Geometry
Dyson is part of a growing number of contemporary artists to imbue geometric abstraction with a sociopolitical dimension.
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For William Kentridge, Art and Life Animate One Another
In an exhibition that consists of mostly small-scale black and white works on paper, viewer engagement almost magically awakens the sleepy room.
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When a Solo Exhibition Is Created by a Community
Maria Maea’s All in Time continues an intergenerational conversation and exemplifies the artist’s process, not simply the finished pieces.
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What Freedom Looks Like for Incarcerated Artists
Koestler Arts works with incarcerated people and patients in secure mental health units, aiming to improve their lives through creativity.
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Read This Before You Jump on the Lensa "Magic Avatar" Trend
Lensa AI’s digital avatars have captivated users, but some say the app is stealing from artists and reflects racial stereotypes.
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Why Did Roman Baths Disappear?
New research contests the myth that it was Christianity's opposition to public nudity that led to the decline in large-scale bathing in the late Roman Empire.
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The Typography of Change
An exhibition at San Francisco’s Letterform Archive highlights typography’s role in iconic social movements from the 1800s through the present.
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Celebrating “Weird” Art in Chicago
Rocks, ducks, and a self-organized survey of Gingham are some of the things to see right now in four Chicago art galleries.
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Art in the Attention Economy
If there is an object you have ever desired in your life, rest assured that someone in the advertising industry made money convincing you of exactly that.