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An Artist Shifts the Focus of a Folktale from Guilt to Liberation
Azzah Sultan acknowledges the power of stories we tell ourselves and each other, and our power to change their meanings.
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Indigenous Resilience and Futurism in the Hamptons
In addition to predicting the coming of colonization, environmental destruction, and capitalism, Indigenous artists have also envisioned a world where these things never happened.
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David Diao's Long Search for Painting's Many Identities
One key to understanding Diao’s art is that he has long worked with a reductive geometric vocabulary, while always pushing back against any of postmodernism’s reductive narratives.
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The Layered History of Japanese Printmaking, Distilled in an Emerald Tapestry
If Hokusai had focused his subject on swirling tide pools instead of “The Great Wave,” it may have felt something like Taiko Chandler’s “Blue Surge.”
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Life, Death, and the Cosmos Come Together in Sharon Lockhart's Art
Lockhart's latest exhibition offers a near-spiritual glimpse at the enormity of our planet, encompassing life, death, and the cosmos.
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Kamoda Shōji, One of Japan’s Most Celebrated Ceramic Artists
Early on, Kamoda’s exhibitions were met with crowds who lined up around the block to see his elegant, elusive works.
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Francesca Fuchs Tenderly Renders the Small and Private
Fuchs’s quiet paintings and ceramics pay tribute to the small, private objects that accompany us through life and ultimately anchor us in time.
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Toni Morrison’s The Black Book Was a Groundbreaking Archive, Anthology, and Scrapbook
Hilton Als’s collection of materials, art, and ephemera isn’t meant to elucidate Morrison’s work but ponder the novelist’s impact on American culture.
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Returning to the Island of Chiloé
Join Hyperallergic for an online conversation with curator Dan Cameron on February 22 at 7pm (EST).
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Satisfyingly Tactile Art at Frieze Los Angeles
It is as if, after two years of staring at works on screen, galleries knew that audiences were hungry for artwork so physical, you could devour them with your eyes.
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Required Reading
This week, the world's largest black diamond, Francis Ford Coppola is spending $120M of his own money to make a film, post-colonialism in the post-Soviet space, Ikea's quest for the last of Europe's old growth forests, and more.
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The Mystique of Chiloé Reflected in Its Art
Instead of believing I’m helping local artists by bringing international art to Chiloé, the best contribution I can make may be to help provide a venue where local artists and artisans can show their art for the benefit of each other.