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Required Reading
This week, very very soft furniture, butt types, the Combahee River Collective, Samuel Fosso talked to curator Okwui Enwezor, PowerPoint activism on Instagram, climate apartheid, and more.
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The Lives of the Art Museum
Like cabinets of curiosities from the old regime, art museums often display plunder.
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Rediscovering Leslie Kerr's Pop Abstraction
Kerr was an abstract artist with a vulgar sense of humor.
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Warren Isensee’s Breakthrough
Isensee has gone from being a dutiful geometric abstractionist to defining his own trajectory, and gaining a verifiable freedom for himself.
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Here's How You Can Help Save the US Postal Service
From signing petitions to stocking up on art-inspired stamps, here are some small but vital ways you can help keep USPS afloat in spite of Trump’s targeted attacks.
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Basking in Derek Jarman’s Private Utopia
A recreation of the cottage where Jarman spent his final days, an exhibition at the Garden Museum creates a response to HIV that is at once personal and political, shining a light on wider issues of institutional homophobia.
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New National Parks Posters Keep the Spirit of the WPA Alive
The "Recreate Responsibly" campaign draws inspiration from classic 1930s park promotions.
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Cold War Architecture in the Heart of Idyllic Southern California
This Saturday, Stuart W. Leslie will speak about “The Architecture of the Apocalypse.”
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Guggenheim's Panza Collection Team Responds to "Why Did the Guggenheim Decommission a Donald Judd?"
They write, "We welcome Peter Karol's extended reflection on topics at stake in the Panza Collection Initiative, which contains many important points, but also contains several errors and misstatements, which we are writing to correct."
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“Emotion and Light Put Together”: An LA Photographer Captures Protests and Peace
“I needed to see Black people just being gentle and loving each other in front of me. Instead of another video of somebody being murdered,” says Alexis Hunley.
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Is There a New Yiddish Contemporary Visual Art?
Since about the 1970s, a new and largely post-vernacular Yiddish culture has started to develop in many, often unexpected, locales around the world. A related visual aesthetic now seems to be emerging.
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Public Art Projects That Bring Poetry and Participatory Installations to Lower Manhattan
Founded as a way of highlighting the resiliency of local artists, LMCC’s annual River to River Festival returns with new and recent works by Asiya Wadud, Mona Chalabi, Jean Shin, and Muna Malik.