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What Are Messerschmidt’s Bizarre 18th-century Sculpted Heads Trying To Tell Us?
For Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, his Character Heads were his way to forestall the demons that tortured him.
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A Monumental, Feminist Textile Work, Cobbled Together by Mail
“The Map” is a redress of Christianity’s, and the Irish State’s, distortions of human sexuality and the feminine.
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Yolanda López, Whose Art Was a Call to Look at Chicana Women
In 1978, Yolanda López debuted a body of work whose imagery would reshape the visual language of Chicanx feminism.
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Deborah Jack Explores the Shared Histories of the Body and Landscape
A current retrospective highlights Jack’s insistence on photography’s capacity to express stories held in the environment rather than the archive.
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Embroidery Art Is Thriving Across India
“Embroidery feels like a language that my hands speak,” says Jahnavee Baruah.
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Witnessing & Curating the Art of Bessie Harvey
Join Hyperallergic for an online conversation with curator Frederica Simmons on February 15 at 7pm (EST).
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The Beastliness of Bacon
Bacon was obsessed by animals lifelong. Rawness. Beastliness. Fearsomeness. The way they lived. The way they died. The way they preyed upon each other.
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“Creative Seeing” in the Paintings of Elmer Bischoff and Tom Burckhardt
Bischoff and Burckhardt questioned assumptions and conventions regarding abstraction and how we apprehend it. In fact, their questioning is what makes this a fruitful pairing.
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Required Reading
This week, the racist depictions in the US Capitol, fictional truths and conspiracy theories, the evolving relationship of celebrities and NFTs, "black passing," and much more.
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A New Standard for Uplifting Black Narratives Through Conscious Curation
When the memory of the past and the potential of the future we long to see converge to meet us here, which direction do we turn?
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Brenda Goodman's Fearless Self-Portraits
While I have seen Goodman's self-portraits numerous times, the unlikely combination of raw pathos and tenderness always stops me in my tracks.
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A Painter Takes a Collaborative Approach to the Portrait
Gisela McDaniel captures the voices and memories of her sitters and offers them the opportunity to narrate their own histories.