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Rosie Lee Tompkins’s Textiles Offer Windows Into Other Worlds
Tompkins’s quilts are at turns abstract beauties, political statements, faith-based texts, and textile craft.
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How the Wedding Cake House, a Feminist Architectural Project, is Bigger on the Inside
The current renovation of the Wedding Cake House in Providence, Rhode Island, provides an opportunity to consider the beneficial impacts of feminist architecture projects in the US.
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At 96 Years Old, Richard Mayhew Is Still Painting Transportive “Mindscapes”
The American painter was a member of the legendary artist group Spiral and continues to make art every day in his studio in Santa Cruz.
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Required Reading
This week, the newly selected Theodore Roosevelt President Library design, Cuties outrage, philanthropy's difficult relationship to social justice, climate migration in the US, and more.
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Albert Murray Talking Modernism, Race, and Jazz
Murray came of age at a time when brutal circumstances coincided with buoyant Modernity.
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An Old Painter Stares at His Hands
Georg Baselitz reflects on his own aging hands through the prism of all the art he has seen.
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Cosima von Bonin Takes Cute Art Seriously
Implicit throughout the artist's latest show is the tension between the feeling of failure and the struggle to be recognized and taken seriously, rather than erased.
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Robert Mangold's Emotional Optics
With his recent works, Mangold underscores a consciousness of mortality that he meets with a gracefulness that is breathtaking.
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A Painter for a Heated World
Given his red-dominated palette, I don’t think it is implausible to suggest that one of Frank Holliday’s subjects is conflagration — a world consumed by fire.
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In India, Women Artists Are Making Salient Work During the Pandemic
As the country entered lockdown, an urgent need to stay hopeful and inspired through the crisis emerged.
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Brooklyn Museum Employees Accuse Administration of Staff Mistreatment
Former and current workers have stepped forward to decry the behavior of executive leadership at the Brooklyn Museum, denouncing “the harm and daily mistreatment” of workers of color.
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Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Skillfully Flips the Script of Art History
In A Countervailing Theory, her current exhibition at the Barbican Centre, Ojih Odutola’s alternative histories take on a more epic, mythic scale.