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This week, the most Googled artists around the world, the Pentagon's role in Marvel movies, and more.
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Doug Aitken’s Cities of Loss
Aitken’s exhibition "Flags and Debris" is informed by a dialectic of embodiment and absence.
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Dona Nelson Stands Alone
The dizzying effect of Nelson’s two-sided paintings brings to mind the sensory overload of living in a city.
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Lured by Two Contemporary Masters
Long after I left Robert Grosvenor and David Novros at Paula Cooper, certain works floated up in my memory, calling me to return.
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Kubra Khademi’s Erotic and Coded Paintings of Women
Kubra Khademi honors the “below-the-belt” language used by many Afghan women.
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Bulls, Bears, and Others Symbols of Wall Street Protest Art
When traders on r/wallstreetbets started bankrupting short sellers of GameStop and AMC stock, social media rejuvenated imagery stretching back to the 19th century.
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Black Feminist Archival Continuums: A Digital Remix of the Rita Keegan Archive (Project)
This is what Black feminist archival care work looks like.
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Grief and Grievance Honors the Weight and Wake of Racial Violence
A prophetic document of our time, the New Museum exhibition calls attention to the weight of Black death not because it is new or salacious but because it remains urgent.
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40 Years Later, Rigoberto Torres and John Ahearn Are Still Making Life Casts of Bronx Residents
"The Bronx Comes to Los Angeles" presents Ahearn’s and Torres’s works side by side, and it is ultimately Torres’s sculptures that stand out.
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Mildred Thompson’s Confounding, Cosmological Abstractions
There’s a certain irony to the fact that Thompson, an artist who was so in-tune with the patterns of nature and the universe, posed such a fundamental challenge to mainstream art histories.
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The Fluctuating Truth of Documentary Images
False and varying claims about documentary images made by Candida Höfer and Dorothea Lange ultimately create a deeply malleable “unsettled subject.”
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Required Reading
This week, looted art from Afghanistan, colonizing Mars, Lorraine O'Grady in the spotlight, the notion of the "Muslim world," Fox News as propaganda, and more.