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Reclining Men Reading Radical Books
Artist Pachi Muruchu merges his radical beliefs and resistance to colonialism with a complex sense of color and the moods it can conjure and inflect.
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The Contentious History of a Lost Cave House in Mexico City
The destruction of “Casa Cueva,” one of Juan O’Gorman’s last architectural works, pitted two great artists against each other in one of the most divisive episodes in Mexican contemporary art history.
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Sally Gabori's Cartography of Aboriginal Displacement
During her last decade of life Gabori created abstract, large-scale paintings that map her emotional memory of her ancestral home.
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Why Are You Drawing Faces Like That?
With deep-set eyes and sealed lips, an ovular, narrow face is pervasive in James Gilbert’s work.
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In Venice, the Roma People Take Center Stage
The history of the Roma and Sinti in Poland and Europe is that of marginalization, exclusion, misrepresentation, and persecution.
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LA Parking Lot Becomes a Screening Room for Street Photography
Projecting LA featured honest portraits of the city by 35 street, documentary, news, and student photographers — with not a single Hollywood sign in sight.
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A Joyous Carnival to Celebrate David Graeber's Lasting Legacy
Artists gathered for the launch of the new David Graeber Institute, which will oversee the scholar’s archive of unpublished texts and pursue projects around climate change, debt, labor, and war.
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A Miniature View of Modernism's Masters
Though smaller in size than the artists’ usual works, the works in Modernism in Miniature gain their heft from their big-name creators.
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Barbara Sullivan's Contemporary Art of Fresco Painting
Sullivan's frescos are original and surprising but also wry and even feisty; she both embraces and enhances the clunkiness of the medium, animating her subjects.
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Dead People Prefer Photography, Apparently
Shannon Taggart’s book SÈANCE pictures the supernatural occurrences in the lives of Spiritualists, seekers, mediums, and other occult practitioners.
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The Spookiest Images of Early Photography
From creepy Victorian post-mortem portraits to Félix Nadar's horrifying shot of the Paris Catacombs, we’re definitely never sleeping again.
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Phoebe Adams Memorializes the Ephemeral
Adams's imaginative recreation of our everyday surroundings in her paintings is a reminder of how fleeting and transmutable the material world can be.