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The Brutal Exploitation Behind the Belgian Art Nouveau
Sammy Baloji demonstrates how the architectural movement — and implicitly, Belgium as a country and culture — was underpinned by the colonization of the Congo.
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New Dwyane Wade Statue Looks Like Anyone Except Dwyane Wade
Memes draw comparisons to The Matrix, Kelsey Grammer, and seemingly everyone except Miami Heat’s star player.
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Can Asian-American Identity Still Be a Political Home?
Legacies examines the varied strategies Asian-American artists used to navigate New York from 1969 through 2001, offering lessons for the future.
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The Cross-Pollination Between Prints and Textiles Yields Abundance
An exhibition at the New York Public Library shows that these modes share deep roots.
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The Motley Crew of Haegue Yang’s Hybrid Sculptures
The artist explores sonic reverberations, the relationship between the sacred and material realms, and the ways in which artworks might be activated by a participant.
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The Charming and Strange History of New Yorkers and Their Animals
At the New-York Historical Society, a new exhibition chronicles the lives of pets and their owners since the 18th century.
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Required Reading
This week: Courbet gets the electoral treatment, the politics of the waistline, ugly medieval dogs, and what happens when you fall out of love with an artwork?
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David Bayus’s AI-Infused Gender Burlesque
The artist unspools a playful and dark-edged narrative that refracts art deco and noir melodrama through the late-modern styles of video games, manga, and fantasy.
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From the Ruins of the Past, Indigenous Artists Fashion New Futures
Future Imaginaries gathers work by a range of Native artists who are wielding fashion, technology, and sci-fi to carry ancestral knowledge forward.
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Hard Graft Reminds Us That Health Is Political
A stellar curation of stirring contemporary works and archival material expose the links between labor and health. The show calls, in turn, for a bit of visitor effort.
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Why Is There a Defunct Crane in Madison Square Park?
Nicole Eisenman’s new public artwork has everything to do with land use decisions and urban development in New York City.
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A Year After Record Floods, Gowanus Open Studios Returns
This year’s theme, “Gowanus Under Construction,” invited participants to reflect on the gentrification of the historically industrial Brooklyn neighborhood.