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Damien Davis Explores the Legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre Through Collage

For his solo presentation at Untitled Art Fair in Miami, Davis developed a lexicon of negritude, crafting sculptural plexiglass collages to explore the events that decimated a community popularly known as “Black Wall Street.”

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A Tale of Two Pioneering Women Painters in Renaissance Italy

At a time when women were seen as incapable of serious creative or intellectual activity, Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana gained international renown for their exceptional bodies of work.

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In 1977, an Artist Married Her Male Alter-Ego to Challenge Chauvinism

For almost 50 years, Tomaso Binga has been tackling the numerous manifestations of patriarchy in Italian culture. At 88, she is a living legend in Rome’s cultural scene.

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A Film Festival Illuminates the Experimental Edge of Appropriation Cinema

Although its roots go back more than half a century, in an era of “fake news” and “deep fakes,” appropriation cinema can be seen as a critical voice of resistance.

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Forensic Architecture Joins Journalists to Depict Syria's Use of Chemical Weapons

Investigative journalism website Bellingcat, with the help of research group Forensic Architecture, seeks to put an end to the theories that the harrowing chemical attack against civilians in April 2017 was a "false-flag operation."

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Imagining Utopia, Just Over the Horizon

The final exhibition of a trilogy at the Ford Foundation gallery imagines that our best selves have yet to be. They are on the horizon and the people who have been most oppressed, most ignored, and rejected will lead us all there.

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Hands Down, This 89-Year-Old Collector Has the Coolest Apartment in NYC

From Bruce Nauman to Do-Ho Suh sculptures, Henry Buhl’s SoHo loft is decorated entirely with artworks about one thing: hands.

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A Photographer Shows Deference For Sublime, Endangered Coastlines

Thomas Joshua Cooper has feverishly circumnavigated the globe in an effort to chart the Atlantic basin. His recent photos of the California coast, subject to wildfires and drilling, feel all the more poignant.

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Baseera Khan's Vivid, Anti-Imperialist Odes

snake skin is a corporeal study of the body politic, in which Khan wields the tools of cultural autopsy in her dissections of ancient ruins and traditions.

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Jeffrey Gibson's Artistic Remixes, From Song Lyrics to Indigenous Craft

Gibson’s ongoing explorations of identity and art history have produced a dizzying range of forms over the course of his career.

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The Cosmological Musings of Michael West, an American Abstract Expressionist

The artist, born Corinne Michelle West, is among the forgotten women of the postwar era, who rarely adhered to one style.

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The Miami Film Festival That's One Wild Weeklong Party

This November, Borscht Festival celebrated an extravagant "rebirth" with unique, homegrown South Florida programming — and a ton of hedonism.