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Trevon Latin Finds Joy in Melancholy
Latin’s colorful artworks touch on aspects of queer and Black experience, not in broad strokes, but in exceedingly specific ones.
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Imagining Our Climate Future
Speculations about climate change by an array of artists feel eerily probable, if not already real.
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Facing Catastrophe With Calm
Joshua Marsh has fashioned a world where a sweet, wise humor in the face of mortality and inescapable change prevails.
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The Triumphant Tangles of Christina Quarles’s Canvases
In Quarles’s paintings, boundaries dissolve as the artist grinds up the fixed binaries of Black/white or male/female.
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The Sensual, Surreal, and Queer PaJaMa Collective
The collective staged erotically charged photographs of themselves and those in their artistic circles.
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An Early 20th-Century Erotic Illustrator and Her Queer Vision of Beauty
Gerda Wegener’s works ranged from glamorous portraits of her partner to graphic illustrations of sex that celebrated women’s pleasure.
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“Dear America, Fix Your Racism”: Asian American Artists Project Messages Around Bay Area
A new project headed by Christy Chan is “unapologetically taking up a lot of space.”
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The Bite-Sized Art of Chewing Gum
Hannah Wilke is part of an elastic history of bubble gum-as-art that started before her and continues to this day.
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Artist Mary Mattingly Wants to Know: Where Does Your Water Come From?
Mattingly’s public art project at Prospect Park aims to raise awareness about how to create more equitable and sustainable public water systems.
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The Tender Nuance of “Habibi”
A group of artists in Detroit is developing a “Habibi Futurism.”
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The Art of AI: Computer-generated Sculptures Are Eerily Real
Artist Matteo Rattini trained a neural network to create images of contemporary sculptures based on Instagram's algorithm suggestions.
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Lynn Hershman Leeson, in All Her Cyborg Glory, Gets a Retrospective
A foremother to young new media artists working today, Hershman Leeson has blazed a trail for more than five decades.