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Caught in the Embrace of Shizu Saldamando’s Portraits
Saldamando portrays people isolated at home, waiting out a public health crisis.
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A Coalition of Artists Promote Indigenous and Environmental Struggles Through Open Access Art
Throughout 2021, Indigenous water protectors and climate justice groups have distributed copyright-free artworks supporting recent anti-pipeline protests in Minnesota.
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Toppling Columbus with a Rainbow Cookie
Nothing is more boring than reducing Italian American identity into stereotypes, but artist John Avelluto avoids that with his wide-ranging aesthetic appetite.
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Pamela Council’s Sensory Haven in Times Square
“A Fountain for Survivors” is a protective, pink cocoon in New York City’s busiest district.
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Recently Discovered Forrest Bess Paintings
It is one thing to be a visionary and another to be one whose work holds your attention for a sustained period of time.
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The Many Faces of Gillian Wearing
Regardless of which way the camera is pointing, Wearing shows a lively — and altogether merciless — interest in how people choose to tell their own stories.
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Jonathan Feldschuh's Visions of a Subatomic World
Feldschuh understands that the actions and interactions of particles can be formulated mathematically but not illustrated visually.
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Two Latinx Artists Take On Gentrification from the Perspective of Those Displaced
Shellyne Rodriguez and Danielle De Jesus powerfully respond to the continued attacks on their neighborhoods with works that validate and uplift elements of everyday urban Latinx life that are usually devalued.
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Required Reading
This week, I've included a lot of humor because with the recent news on the coronavirus variant, we can all use it.
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Getting to Know an Overlooked Pioneer of Bay Area Abstraction
The art world has paid attention to other artists from the same era, but we have not done the same with Sonia Gechtoff, and it is time that we did.
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Not Quite the Wifredo Lam Show That's Needed Now
Wifredo Lam developed a style that dances between figuration and abstraction, but the selected compositions at Pace gallery tend to repeat.
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Love, Art, And Politics Intertwined
These four artists dig into the cultural and geologic history of the enclave of Staten Island to produce work that resonates with the core of bell hooks 's commendation to love.