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Required Reading
This week: Dalit art and appropriation, Gisèle Pelicot and dignity for survivors, a Dakota recipe for holiday meals, the truth about Santa, and more.
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The Best Memes of 2024
From a chronically moisturized baby hippo to Trump’s bloody ear and the glorification of Luigi Mangione, nothing was off limits this year.
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Exposing the Dark Underbelly of the American West
Out of Site focuses on the scientific tools used to map the West’s resource-rich landscape, and how those technologies have become forces of destruction.
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Holly Lane’s Elegiac Shrines to the Natural World
The artist evokes a keen awareness of the threats facing the environment by honoring it through opulent, reliquary-style frames and delicate paintings.
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Street Art Meets Aboriginal Culture in the Work of Reko Rennie
The artist challenges binaristic distinctions between “traditional” Aboriginal and contemporary art through works drawn from his expansive two-decade career.
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The Sinister Subtext of Farshid Bazmandegan’s Paintings
The artist’s latest show connects the art industry with geopolitics, urging us to examine our role in a complicated negotiation of denial and strategic ignorance.
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Sheila Hicks’s Faith in the Latent Power of Materials
An invigorating survey of mostly recent works by the American artist at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf is a feast of rhythmic form and pulsating color.
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Cecilia Vicuña’s Poetry in Space
The artist suggests that like her fragile assemblages, peace demands care, balance, and the resolve to hold together what might otherwise fall apart.
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Alternate Landscapes of Diasporic Homelands
Samantha Box constructs altars to the interconnection between plant and human life while Sheida Soleimani creates collages imbued with familial memory.
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Exhibition Aids Ashville’s Hurricane-Stricken Arts Community
The proceeds from Love Asheville From Afar will benefit artists impacted by Helene, which tore through the city's River Arts District.
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In LA’s Hall of Records, New Artworks Look to the Past and Future
Teresa Baker and Felix Quintana’s recently unveiled commissions make visible some of the city’s overlooked communities and places.
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Samia Halaby’s Abstractions Map Displacement and Home
The trailblazing artist’s abstract paintings, on view in her first US museum retrospective, are luxurious fields of color and form, each one pulsating with its own energy.