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Black Artists Claim Their Birthright of Abstraction
The artists at False Flag Gallery demonstrate the through line between art of the African continent and modern abstraction.
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Identifying Slut-Shaming, Racism, and Transphobia in the Byzantine World
In his new book, Roland Betancourt examines how stories of gender, race, and sexuality from the Byzantine world of the Eastern Mediterranean provide insight into the intersectionality that existed in the medieval world.
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Jack Whitten’s Infinite Galaxies of Abstract Light and Color
Focused on Whitten’s legacy-defining cumulative process, I AM THE OBJECT assembles a mesmerizing selection of works, each its own tiny universe.
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Salman Toor’s Dreamy Scenes Imagine the Queer, South Asian Everyday
Toor’s long-awaited Whitney debut shapes a new narrative, one that centers the brown, queer body.
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Light Up Your Family’s Winter With These Animated Shorts
The 2020 Best of BAMkids Film Festival presents a program of charming shorts.
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The Rise of Mobile Art, From the Renaissance to the Digital Anthropocene
The creation of digital artworks made to be displayed anywhere is the latest development of a process begun hundreds of years ago.
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Prado Museum Reopens With a Hard Look at Spanish Sexism
"Uninvited Guests" looks at sexism in Spain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and at the museum’s own essential role in perpetuating it.
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Watching Whiteness Shift to Blue Via Nationalist Aesthetics
Since the 1950s policing has presented itself as a “thin blue line” against disorder — a dog-whistle connecting the Civil Rights Movement to the mobility of Black people and white fears about the loss of a permanent, racialized social hierarchy.
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The Bioweapons of Culture War
The hope now is not for this to end well, but simply for it to end.
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The Crude, Exhilarating, Watery Worlds of Alfred Wallis
Wallis tore up the rule book and pointed a way forward for British painting.
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Required Reading
This week, the racialization of painters' palettes, destruction concerns in Artsakh, why fascists like Dune, how Facebook didn't ban Holocaust deniers, elite panic, and more.
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“Hahahahahaha” Can Be No Laughing Matter on TikTok
How one South Asian popular song, which was recently popularized on TikTok, is raising questions about cultural appropriation online.