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Yoshitomo Nara Captures Children in All Their Rage and Wonder
In Nara’s paintings, children stand in as angry innocents raging against an oppressive world of adults.
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Take a Tour of This Artist-decorated Neighborhood in Bangalore
“Street art really helps reimagine what a place can look like,” said Yash Bhandari, a contributing artist.
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Florida's Kaleidoscopic Skies and Windblown Palms, Immortalized by a Cohort of Black Painters
The Highwaymen’s paintings are an environmental time capsule for a state highly threatened by the climate crisis.
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Féral Benga, the Cabaret Dancer Who Redefined Black Masculinity
A double portrait of the dancer and Harlem Renaissance icon at Swann Galleries evokes his allure as an artist's model and his indelible imprint on modernism.
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An Artist’s Hand Towels, Woven During the Pandemic
Doerte Weber’s weavings reproduce the ubiquitous charts and graphics related to infection rates, deaths, and unemployment.
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A Photographer’s Otherworldly Portrayal of Créolité
In Widline Cadet’s photographs, the motherland haunts.
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Huguette Caland’s Vivacious Takes on the Female Form
Robust, voluptuous, and sexually frank, the works in Tête-à-Tête showcase Caland’s outré sense of humor and vivacity.
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This Sculpture Museum Is 32 Feet Below Water
Artist Jason deCaires Taylor’s 90 sculptures will help generate the “recovery of coral habitats and reefs.”
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A Printmaker Memorializes New York City’s Architecture
“Manhattan is my easel,” said Austin Thomas.
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Required Reading
This week, the real meaning of “carpe diem,” Kerry James Marshall gets the profile treatment, Andrew Cuomo’s network of protection, James Baldwin’s birthday, and more.
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With Mother Tongue, Camille Henrot Calls for Change
Henrot demonstrates the need to look at the beginning of our very existence to address social and gender inequalities.
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A Poet-Artist Looks to the Stars
Monica Ong is a 21st-century visual poet who extends the reader’s sense of what is possible.