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An Intimate Look at the Landscape of the South Texas Borderlands
Though the area has been at the center of recent border wall debates, its complexity and diversity have been politicized and oversimplified for centuries.
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Returned to Nepal by the FBI, a Sculpture Becomes a God Again
Last week, I flew to Nepal and witnessed a ceremony to replace a looted Lakshmi-Narayan sculpture to its original location.
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bell hooks Left Behind a Legacy of Scholarship on Art and Love
Not content to wait for a bevy of critics to comment on the going-ons of the non-white art world, hooks took it upon herself to write about the artists she believed to be critical in the field.
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The Mysteries of the Universe in John Willenbecher’s Early Work
Between 1962 and ’75, Willenbecher made a substantial body of work reflecting his interest in games and the night sky, in the ancient human desire to make order out of the inexplicable.
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Required Reading
This week, Metro Pictures officially closed, tributes to bell hooks, the Wayfair conspiracy, celebrity profiles, and more.
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A Moving Meditation on Mortality in Brice Marden's Late Paintings
What I see as his late period reveals an artist who knows that change is inevitable, that mortality is hurrying closer, and that art is not a bulwark against time.
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An Artist Honors Iceland's Wild Nature from a Distance
Jónsi hasn’t just utilized natural materials but has, one senses, collaborated with them, allowing them their own innate power.
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Athena LaTocha Digs Deep into Brooklyn’s Past
The artist’s wall-size drawing evokes a geologic mood within a neighborhood that has changed in recent decades.
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The Poetry of Black Daily Life in the Art of Whitfield Lovell
Each portrait in Lovell's current exhibition is a lens through which to consider the complex humanity of Black subjectivity in American history.
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Silver as a Lens Into Santa Fe and Its “Place in the Myth of the American West”
Upon invitation from the Wheelwright Museum, Nathan Young has created an installation of bridles, bow guards, belt buckles, and cigarette holders ranging from the 19th century to the present.
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The Curious Dream to Build the World’s First NFT Museum
A secretive blockchain entrepreneur wants to mint a new institution to prove that NFTs are here to stay.
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Who Owns the 3D Scans of a Famous Venetian Church?
“I don’t see the recording of the island as an end in itself,” says Adam Lowe, the founder of Factum. “We see it as the start of a new level of research.”