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Imperialist Violence Undergirds Hew Locke's Majestic Met Museum Facade Sculptures
The Guyanese-British artist's commission for the museum was created in a tense dialogue with collection objects that are connected to conquest.
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Required Reading
This week, fictional characters with student debt, a Gen X guide to Web3, landlord rent increases, neoliberals and Salman Rushdie, money and happiness, and more.
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Penny Goring's Emotional Body Horror
The interplay between bodies and emotions in Goring’s work, and their potential to be transformative, reveals the politics that pump through the artist’s ever-exposed heart.
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Jean Painlevé Revealed the Otherworldliness Beneath the Water’s Surface
His detailed images of microscopic aquatic creatures suggest a version of Surrealism’s dream realities.
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Painting Against the Tyranny of Flatness
Korea's Dansaekhwa artists eschewed the idea of art-about-art and commodity culture in favor of an abstract art imbued with traces of the struggle for liberation and cultural identity.
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The Environmental Crisis Comes Home
Ideal Home captures the disorientation of a moment in which environmental crises have pierced the domestic sphere.
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Art Gallerist and Patron Virginia Dwan Dies at 90
Dwan helped pave the way when women-owned galleries were not so easy to find, or run.
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Marina Abramović, Mobs, and the Cult of the Hero
The internet can be a crucible for both cruelty and the complexities of trying to counter it. What if we let the heroes stay dead?
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The Real Story Behind Banksy’s “Parking” Mural in LA
Much coverage of the upcoming sale of the building that houses the mural portrays it as a covert intervention into the urban fabric, but the reality, like most things Banksy, is more complicated.
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Artists Tell Instagram: We're Done!
Artists are resorting to platforms like Onlyfans and Pornhub to show work that was banned from the social media network.
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Fred Wilson Summons Ghosts of the Past to Confront the Racism of the Present
Wilson's installation challenges not just outwardly violent historical figures but subtle colonial aesthetics still embedded in the city’s more liberal public monuments.
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Bharti Kher's Monumental "Ancestor" Sculpture Watches Over Central Park
The artist says her sculpture of a mother figure, located at the southeast entrance of the park, represents “a guide to search and honor our past histories.”