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How Robert Kobayashi Elevated the Tin Can
For all the sameness of material and process, Kobayashi was able to attain a wide range of nuanced feeling and subtle pictorial conventions in his tin artworks.
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Five Latinx Art Spaces Band Together to Amplify Their Reach
The Latinx Arts Alliance plans to address the lack of financial support for Latinx spaces, while also advancing and supporting Latinx arts programming in Los Angeles.
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The Noguchi Museum Can Exist Without Visitors
The films of Distance Noguchi show the empty museum’s famous sculpture garden faintly stirred by the wind, the gentle splash of a fountain, or the chance arrival of a bird.
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Why the Bauhaus Still Matters in an Era of Neo-Nationalism
A look back at all the questions, contradictions, omissions, and elisions of last year's bauhaus imaginista exhibition reveals that it was a show about contemporary Germany as a country as much as it is about whatever we are calling “the Bauhaus.”
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In His New Works, Sanford Biggers Finds a Future Ethnography
In his new series, the artist has created 60 works created directly on or made from pre-1900 antique quilts.
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Required Reading
This week, Apple's new sphere, demanding the impossible, objectivity in journalism, the absence of Latinx people in US mainstream culture, who defines racism, and more.
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Martha Tuttle's Sentient Stones at Storm King
When used as wayfinding landmarks or burial mounds, piles of stones can have an air of mystery about them.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Painter and Poet
Lawrence Ferlinghetti marks his 101st year with his first solo exhibition of paintings in New York.
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A Photographer’s Quiet Reflections on Climate Change
Floodzone, an ongoing series by Anastasia Samoylova, stirringly acknowledges that the climate crisis is already upon us, however earnestly we might resist this fact.
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Cervantes’s Sisters: The Female Writers of Spain’s Golden Age
The exhibition Wise and Valiant: Women and Writing in the Spanish Golden Age rescues nearly 30 women from historical oblivion in a display of over 40 manuscripts and publications.
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Lorelei Ramirez Brings the Fine Art of Virtual Comedy to Twitch
With Art is Easy, the artist and comedian invites viewers to tune in for a mix of cathartic comedy and Photoshop draw-alongs, aimed at making the shit show we’re all currently waist-deep in feel just a bit more bearable.
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Bask in Flower Arrangements and Make Sustainable Sculptures at MAIDEN LA
The inclusive art event accepts all projects submitted — this year, it is presenting around 75 artists, collectives, curators, and organizations.