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Required Reading
This week, the first-ever NFT and lost promise, a Cree-based programming language, a 16-year-old architecture critic, Queen Victoria's drug habits, and more.
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The Simpsons Spoofs Metropolitan Museum as “Museum of Generational Wealth”
The latest episode of the Simpsons pokes fun at the parodical Museum of Generational Wealth.
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Through Video and Collage, Abbey Williams Inverts the Paradigm of White Hegemony
In Vignette, Abbey Williams explores how Black affective space persists within and outside the constricted frame of the white gaze.
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Massive Lego Kingdoms That Defy the Cultural Erasure of Africa’s Medieval Civilizations
In an ongoing series of Lego-made sculptures, Ekow Nimako imagines the legacies of past sub-Saharan civilizations into the distant future.
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With David Hammons, Meaning and Process Hold Hands
In Hammons’s body prints, the veteran artist melds method, intention, and significance.
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How Artists Used the Discord App to Build Community During COVID-19
As more artists and arts organizations join the platform initially populated by gamers, they have capitalized on Discord’s potential for creation and play.
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Tracing the Pop Culture Zombie Myth to Haitian Folklore
In sculptures made of sugar, salt, and glass, Sula Bermúdez-Silverman explores the colonial undertones of monster movie imagery.
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In Thrilling Palettes, Ilana Savdie Maps Electrifying Geographies
In the artist’s first solo exhibition, fragments of vibrant color quake with anticipation as if waiting to be ignited.
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“Naked Bits” Jigsaw Puzzles Celebrate Bodies Through Dynamic Photographs
There’s nothing sexier than building anticipation, and nothing is a slower reveal than a jigsaw puzzle.
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Required Reading
Today, NFT legal issues, looking closely at Bosch, talking to Beeple, Ken Burns on documentaries, superhero pay, and more.
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So Much Achieved by One Artist in So Little Time
The Belgian artist Ilse D’Hollander rejected abstraction and figuration as an either/or premise in favor of a path that embraced both.
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Artworks as Portent and Balm
Two exhibitions by Patricia Satterlee have bookended the plague year.