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Kenneth Tam Creates a New Frame for Asian American Masculinity
Tam’s work always comes back to the body, emphasizing what lays beyond our daily performances.
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Avedon's Father, My Mother, and Processing Death
People say you should talk to the dying to reassure them, but words felt too pedestrian for this profound space of transition.
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Living and Working in the Korean Diaspora
Ahrong Kim is a masterful ceramic sculptor whose touchstone is a young Asian woman’s head.
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Required Reading
This week, the cost of competing on RuPaul's Drag Race, "The Scream" is in solidarity with Strike MoMA, a new biography of Edward Said, and more.
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A Painter of Organized Chaos
Brazilian artist Caetano de Almeida lets colors call to colors, and shapes to shapes, as he works his way across the painting.
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Brenna Youngblood Revises the Language of Abstraction
Youngblood’s paintings would probably make Piet Mondrian yelp.
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Raw Portraits of UK Village Win Top Prize at Sony World Photography Awards
Craig Easton collaborated with writer Abdul Aziz Hafiz to challenge depictions of a small community in Lancashire as “the most segregated in Britain.”
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Jordan Eagles Critiques Medical Prejudice Against Queer Men Using Blood and Nostalgia
Can You Save Superman? II explores the politics of blood donation and the residual ignorance surrounding HIV/AIDS.
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Maya Lin Erects a Ghostly Grove of Dead Trees in Manhattan
Lin’s Ghost Forest at Madison Square Park will feature 50 towering white cedars devastated by climate change.
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See a 4,000-Year-Old 3D Map of France
Researchers believe the Bronze Age stone bears a crude map of an area in France’s Brittany region.
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Wielding Time and Text, Tiffany Sia Documents Hong Kong’s Resistance
Slippery When Wet evokes the sociopolitical pressure-cooker that has manufactured Hong Kong’s culture of protest.
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Slow Bodies, Racing Hearts: Lucía Vidales’s Paintings of Our Changing Selves
Pleasingly difficult to decipher, Vidales’s paintings evoke the paradoxes of a year defined by solitude.