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Subtle and Finessed Depictions at the Master Drawings Fair
The close, careful, and subtle observation I found this year is representative of precisely why I continue to gravitate to this fair.
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“Mothers March On” and Beholding, Black World Making
How do we counter stereotypes about Black mothers, while stressing the importance of memory, determination, love, and corporeality?
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The Phillips Collection Celebrates a Century by Centering Black Abstraction
With two stellar retrospectives, one time-based installation, and several commissions by local artists, the Phillips Collection has dedicated its galleries to highlighting abstract work by Black artists.
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A Photographer's Portrait of the Theater of the Streets
A pioneer of street photography, Levitt worked in the most crowded and poorest neighborhoods of New York searching for the theater of everyday life.
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The Materiality of Memory in the Paintings of Eugène Leroy
Leroy's canvases seem to be about age and decay — about the process and limits of recollection made manifest.
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Art Classes Are Helping Transform Medical Education
Classes like Anne Willieme’s are part of the burgeoning field of medical humanities, which aims to tackle the disciplinary divide between art and science.
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Native American Sovereignty’s Impact on the Curation of Indigenous Art
Join Hyperallergic for an online conversation with Kiowa Tribal Museum Director Tahnee Ahtone on January 25 at 7pm (EST).
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Required Reading
This week, Patrisse Cullors speaks, reviewing John Richardson's final Picasso book, the Met Museum snags a rare oil on copper by Nicolas Poussin, and much more.
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Something Is Not Right With The World
Alexi Worth's paintings demand a double take that allows viewers to look closer and begin dissembling the painting in order to understand what is being looked at.
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An Artist's Altar to Divine Feminine Energy
Anastasia Pelias’s sculpture builds on this mythological legacy, suggesting we all have the ability to commune with a higher power and influence our futures.
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Beholding and Curating With Care
Curator La Tanya S. Autry shares a set of crucial questions she considers when curating images of anti-Black violence.
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Paintings that Honor the Privacy of Grief
Crys Yin's subject is grief, which, for all that takes place in public, is largely a private matter.