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Wangechi Mutu Is Urgently Optimistic About the Future
Mutu’s imposing sculptural characters magnify her decades-long collage practice as sites of cultural, psychological, and sociopolitical transformation.
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In Praise of the Humble Print
This year’s International Fine Print Dealers Association Print Fair features work so eye-catching, it’s easy to forget the medium is sometimes disregarded in the art world.
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Required Reading
This week, Elon Musk trolls, getting your news from TikTok, cacti music, and more.
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An Amateur’s Guide to Using AI Image Generators
Distraught by DALL-E? Mystified by Midjourney? We give you the lowdown on four popular AI platforms.
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The Enthralling Solitude of Leigh Werrell's Art
For Werrell, moments of disconnection and isolation in the city become opportunities to find enchantment in the act of looking.
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Long Live Life’s Little Moments
Han's paintings are at once cryptic and straightforward, inaccessible and yet meticulously laid out.
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Photographing History’s Silences and Gaps
A former journalist, Sim Chi Yin came to question the primacy of archival sources after realizing the deliberate decisions behind what gets included or excluded.
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Is Shadow Puppetry a Dying Art Form?
There are tensions between those who wish to preserve the nature of shadow play and those who want to see it evolve.
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Can Commodities Really Critique Commodity Culture?
Given a platform to say something — about first-world capitalism, its attendant environmental destruction, or the definition of the self through objects — why not use it?
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The Brazilian Women Clowns Fighting Back Against Bolsonaro
Palhaçaria feminina, or female clowning, is uniquely situated at the crosshairs of the president’s rhetoric against women, artists, and leftists.
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Juan Sánchez's Nuyorican State of Mind
From painting to photography, the artist’s sophisticated hybrid aesthetic echoes the very condition of being Nuyorican.
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The V&A Wanted to Subvert Toxic Masculinity but Ended Up Reinforcing It
The exhibition Fashioning Masculinities lets men have their cake and eat it too.