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Leaning Into the Feeling of Being Lost
José Luis Vargas beckons us to enter his disorienting world, created “with the eyes of a child who has entered a science fiction tale.”
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The Visceral Intimacy of Amy Sillman’s Drawings
Messy and tender, like a summer fling, Sillman’s drawings embody both the sense of decay and unyielding hunger for life that marks our current times.
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Can You Apologize to an Entire Indigenous Nation?
Is public apology a practice that should be abandoned, or should it be reimagined? Looking at AA Bronson’s “A Public Apology to Siksika Nation” provides some guidance.
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Why Photographers Need Their Own Bill of Rights
Recently a group of photography collectives launched a Photo Bill of Rights to advocate for “lens-based workers,” to challenge the visual bias of white supremacy, and to increase transparency and inclusivity in the photo industry.
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How Academics, Egyptologists, and Even Melania Trump Benefit From Colonialist Cosplay
From khakis to pith hats, certain items of clothing have become enduring emblems of European colonialism and particular scholars who know these problematic histories choose to engage in the aesthetics of colonialism in their everyday lives.
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From Plaster to Plastic, Artists Take Inventive Approaches to Face Masks
In Denver, an exhibition of artist-designed masks shows that face coverings are not only crucial to our health but can also offer unique means of self-expression.
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Diedrick Brackens Explores the Warps and Wefts of Black and Queer Histories
In darling divined, Brackens teases out the symbolism, allegory, and parable long associated with global cosmologies of tapestry weaving.
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LA’s Art Spaces Are Focusing on the Election
From a voting station for those who can’t vote to a fascinating history of campaign ads in the US, artists in Los Angeles got you covered ahead of November 3.
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Making Art Against the Backdrop of Incarceration
In a year of perpetual change, Marking Time demonstrates the urgent need for a shift in culture, one where crisis need not be the charge for moving towards a better world.
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Claudia Hart Breathes Life into Static Tropes of Modernism
The Ruins at Bitforms Gallery riffs off the work of influential Modernists to create vivid digital simulations
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Black Women Performers Discuss “Unrecognized Labor”
Gabrielle Civil, mayfield brooks, and Jasmine Nyende respond to Nikita Gale’s installation PRIVATE DANCER at the California African American Museum.
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Marina Abramović Enhances Her Brand
Abramović’s interests lie more with perpetuating herself as a product than with what she actually expresses through her art.