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Psychedelic and Sardonic, Janiva Ellis’s Paintings Offer Visions of a Divided Nation
With RATS, Ellis explores the twisted realities of American life.
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Artist's Vaccine-Inspired Met Gala Dress Is a Tribute to Science
Brendan McCann's gown features a skirt made of giant vaccination cards, a needle headpiece, and a "FAUCI" purse filled with donuts.
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Julie Mehretu Reminds Us That Borders Are Meant to Be Trespassed
Mehretu’s remarkable mid-career survey blazes through the Whitney Museum of Art, illuminating over two decades of her extensive practice.
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Argentina’s Military Government May Have Stolen from Its Own Museum to Fund Falklands War
In a new book, Anja Shortland describes how a trove of works stolen from the country’s national museum in the 1980s was discovered in the hands of a Taiwanese arms dealer.
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A Field Guide to Art History Papers
We can't pass up a fun meme, so after encountering the recent Types of ____ Paper meme making the rounds, we had some fun and conjured up an array of art history papers that may sound strangely familiar-ish.
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Jessica Vaughn’s Cathartic Critiques of Office Culture
In Vaughn’s hands, “success” takes shape as a parade of etiquette, competition, and power.
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The Monumental Impact of a Judy Baca Mural in Los Angeles
“The work has become timely, but it has always been important,” said Baca of “The Great Wall of Los Angeles.”
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The Street Wisdom of Al Díaz, a First-Generation Graffiti Artist
Although many discussions on Díaz begin with his partnership with Jean-Michel Basquiat in the late 1970s, he still has something real to say.
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Fred Eversley's Joyful Light
Eversley’s parabolic sculptures draw us into a self-aware and ever-shifting encounter with space and perceptual phenomena.
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Katherine Bradford's Joy and Grief
In her “Mother Paintings,” Bradford’s observations of life in a pandemic have merged with her interior world.
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John Lees’s All-Too-Human Paintings
By repeatedly returning to the same motif, Lees attempts the impossible, which is to freeze a particular object, individual, or moment in time.
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Echoes of Buddhist “Emptiness” in Contemporary Chinese Art
The four artists in the exhibition “Silent Thunder” display varying degrees of engagement with Buddhism — as a faith, an aesthetic choice, a school of philosophy, or a social phenomenon.