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How a Map Fueled Perceptions of Asians as an Exoticized “Other”
“Peoples of the Pacific” is one of six murals that was displayed at the influential “Pageant of the Pacific” Golden Gate International Exposition.
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The Media Spectacle of Suffering Surrounding India’s COVID-19 Catastrophe
The most gruesome images of COVID-19's wrath in the Western press have originated from the formerly colonized nation and stand in contrast with an imageless COVID-19 crisis in the United States.
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“We’re Taking Up Space”: Salvadoran Women Artists Shape a New Identity
"And we’re brown, and Central American, and this is what’s up,” artist Liliana Castro explains.
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Why Do AI-generated Portraits Fail at Realism?
Why do these portraits almost always fall short of being lively or authentic?
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Jasper Johns: Hiding in Plain Sight
Johns has repeatedly used one motif whose source has never been identified.
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The Tension in Liat Yossifor’s Paintings
In Yossifor’s work, connections between the imagination and the ordinary world are made not through the pictorial, but through the paint itself.
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Alvin Armstrong's Black Bodies in Motion
Armstrong's paintings explore the role of Black athletes as agents of social change even as white fans push back.
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Required Reading
This week, the lack of Black board members at LA arts organizations, how a stolen Magritte painting may have funded terrorism, the NFT funhouse mirror, the Tulsa Race Massacre, and more.
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Standing Inside Yayoi Kusama’s Mind
How much of the effect is the object reflected, or the reflection of the object?
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Spilled Milk and Other Acts of Protest Visualize the Politics of Food Production
Inspired by the farmers’ protests Rafael Pérez Evans witnessed as a child in Spain, the works in Handful draw attention to the deliberate wedges driven between producer and consumer.
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The Father of French Journalism Who Documented Paris’s Socialist Revolution
For two months in 1871, the people took over the city, and photos by Bruno Braquehais depict the drama — and destruction — of the period.
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The Uneasy History of Swimming and Race, as Relayed Through Art
Swimming has been racialized for 3,000 years, but for most of that time it was Africans who were good swimmers, and Europeans who tried to keep up.