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The Enduring Allure of Pencils
Sometimes affection sprouts up in unexpected forms. Sometimes a core of graphite mixed with clay and encased in a tube of wood can surprise you. It hooked me, anyway.
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The Fascist Messaging of the Trump Campaign Eagle
Trump and his surrogates have repeatedly and blatantly integrated fascist aesthetics into the campaign. This T-shirt design is only the latest example.
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Required Reading
This week, a Breonna Taylor mural you can see from space, cancel culture, California's last Confederate monument, moral clarity and journalism, and more.
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The Crafting of an Art Critic
How did I learn to judge between one work and another? By looking and reading and looking and reading and looking.
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Patrick Strzelec Shows Us One Way to Cut the Mustard
Uncertainty is important, and not just because we are living in uncertain times.
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Eileen Gray, an Architect Ahead of Her Time, Reclaims the Spotlight
By every measure, Eileen Gray ought to be as well-known as her Modernist male contemporaries. An exhibition at Bard’s Graduate Center offers a smart correction to the historical record.
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Peter Hujar’s Tender, Transgressive Portraits and Why They Require Nuance
Lacking any attempts to deepen or broaden conversations about Hujar’s work, Cruising Utopia at Pace Gallery feels more like a store than an exhibition.
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Monumental Paintings Are Hung in the Site of the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide
Safet Zec is exhibiting his opus Exodus in the former UN Mission headquarters in Potočari, where 8,372 Bosnian Muslim men and boys lived their last moments.
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Cinematic Odes to Techno, Detroit, and the Black Producers Who Started a Movement
With Carl Craig Sessions, Dia:Beacon presents an online screening series inspired by the enduring legacy of Black musicians and artists.
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Dominique Fung's Tongue-in-Cheek Rejections of the Orientalist Gaze
In Relics and Remains, Fung’s portraits reframe East Asiatic femininity, prompting the viewer to interrogate the tropes of Orientalism.
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A Senegalese Dance School Reinterprets Pina Bausch
Days before The Rite of Spring was to premiere, the pandemic hit. The unprecedented all-Black cast rehearsed the dance one last time on the beach, resulting in a moving film that is now streaming online.
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Seven Asian Women Artists Discuss Racism and Tokenism in the Art World
Artist stephanie mei huang hopes to create a “space of solidarity” for Asian women — something she says has “seldom been given.”