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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.
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Creating Soundscapes From the Whispering, Bubbling, and Roaring Earth
Now on view at Art Basel Miami Beach, sound artist Jana Winderen's The Art of Listening: Under Water draws listeners’ attention to the rich sonic landscapes of nature — and highlights how human activity might affect them.
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The Everyday Manifestations of Colonialism's Legacy
Banal Presents is the third and final chapter in Colored People Time, departing from the previous shows' speculative representations to examine the ways that colonialism and slavery have permeated the United States' past, present, and future.
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An Art Film Created With Middle Schoolers in Mind
Artist Nicole Miller sees her film To the Stars as being about potential: “I want the kids to feel like they are part of the narrative of what it means to be an astronaut or a brilliant thinker.”
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The Bizarre, Disjointed, Mixed-Media Paintings of David Lynch
Could a current exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and furniture by Lynch hint at secrets hidden in his other works, or even provide some spark of insight into the artist himself?
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How the NYC Squatting Movement Shaped Art in the 1980s and ’90s
In an upcoming panel at the Interference Archive, artists from the Lower East Side Squatting Movement will discuss its radical legacy.
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Required Reading
This week, a newly donated tiny Seurat, Eli Valley on the use of art to fight anti-semitism, reviewing The Irishman, Ta-Nehisi Coates's freedom stories, the kinds of Spanish in the US, and more.
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Unconstrained Paintings of Terror and Love
Joe Coleman is a hyper-realist who crams every picture with data, producing an image of all-over intensity that is at once a scrumptious meal and hard to stomach.
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Positively Ninth Street Women
By the mid-1970s, critic Thomas Hess acknowledged the critical favoritism shown to postwar male artists when he singled out the women of the Ninth Street Show as “sparkling Amazons.”
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Artists of the Darkness and Light
While Tatsumi Hijikata and Eikoh Hosoe reflected the countercultural mood of Japan’s postwar avant-garde, the trauma of World War II is inscribed in both artists’ aesthetics.
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A Fresh Direction for Printmaking
Sarah Amos’s work may be labor-intensive, yet it conveys neither labor nor the consumption of time, but a meditative joy.
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A Viral List of Hundreds of Opportunities for Artists, Compiled by One Person to Encourage Community
Everest Pipkin has made public their "Big Artist Opportunities List” — a collection of over 400 opportunities for artists across the globe.