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Philip Guston’s Unblinking Eye
I cannot think of another American artist who went as far as Guston did without a safety net.
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Adventure and Spirituality Collide in Joseph E. Yoakum’s Visionary Art
Yoakum had said repeatedly that the drawings were “spiritual unfoldments,” meaning that faith guided his patterns and passages.
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Neglected 20th-Century Women Photographers Begin to Get Their Due
The exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum aims to move beyond Euro-American historical narrative.
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A Lock of Beethoven’s Hair and Maya Angelou’s Papers Are Among NYPL’s Treasures
The exhibition, on view for the next 75 years, features 250 rare items from the library's collection.
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What Might a New, 21,000-square-foot Art Space Bring to Brooklyn?
With the opening of the new, $40 million structure in East Williamsburg, it poses the question of its role in the local arts community — one of collaboration or conquest?
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The Rich History of Women in Design, From 1900 to Now
Here We Are! is an expansive exhibition exploring the role of women in furniture design, fashion design, industrial design, and interior design.
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Finding Zinat Mahal, the Last Dowager Empress of Mughal India
The photograph of Mahal, taken in 1872 while she was interned and dispossessed, raises questions of consent.
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Spirited Textiles Capture the Fervor of Recent Political Unrest
Tabitha Arnold’s rugs pay tribute to organizers who lay their bodies on the line in the workplace, in the public square, and in the depths of private prisons.
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The Urgency and Resonance of Chakaia Booker
The intentionality of Booker's abstraction gives me the impetus to discuss something about the current zeitgeist that’s been on my mind for a while.
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The Many Feminisms of Contemporary Art
After years in the making, New Time opens at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
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Required Reading
This week, LA's new Academy Museum, the intersections of anti-Blackness and anti-fatness, a largely unknown 19th century Black theater in NYC, sign language interpreters, and more.
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The Problematic Allure of Titian’s Poesie Paintings
Titian’s paintings are masterpieces, with all the complications of the term.