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Women Artists Take Over Tate Britain
What’s clear in Now You See Us is that the artists were excluded from the canon because of sociopolitical factors, not artistic merit.
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A View of Asian Diaspora From Halfway Out
The Appearance at New York’s Americas Society succeeds in showcasing art by Asian artists in Latin America and the Caribbean without essentializing their identities.
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Without Content Doesn’t Mean Empty
Lacey Black and Aubrey Levinthal share a talent in their paintings for bringing inward and outward states together until they are one.
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Pia Arke’s Archives of Arctic Colonization
Arke’s art calls forth memories of Greenlandic Inuit life and reinscribes them with the reality of the body against its representation by White colonizers.
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An Artist Puts the Fossil Fuels Industry on Trial
Paolo Cirio sues the fossil fuel industry on behalf of the environment in his latest book and body of work.
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Inside the Bay Area’s Church of Magic Mushrooms
At Oakland’s controversial Church of Ambrosia, a mural that documents the religion’s doctrine is meant to “recreate a psychedelic trip.”
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Plushies Inspired by Medieval Cats Take the Internet by Storm
Laura Venditti’s delightful needle-felted creations are inspired by the oddly proportioned creatures that haunt illuminated manuscripts and paintings.
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How Ukraine Refashioned Modernist Art
In the Eye of the Storm conveys how Ukraine came to be a thriving center of avant-garde art in the early decades of the 20th century.
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María Magdalena Campos-Pons Leads a Procession of Hope
With stops at sites of significance to Black and Cuban New Yorkers, the artist’s walking performance captures the essence of her practice: harnessing the collective toward a unified vision.
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Rachel Martin Serves Up a Communal Meal of Art
Martin's capacity to weave cultural traditions together in her distinctive artistic voice translates into inventive drawings that center the joy of communing, confiding, and sharing meals.
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Six Art Shows to Visit in Philadelphia This Fall
Keep election-season woes at bay with masterworks of Black portraiture, musings on a Persian epic poem, Mickalene Thomas’s first international traveling solo show, and more.
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Required Reading
This week: Hyperallergic visits a local radio station, a documentary on Sudanese resilience, bestseller lists are a lie, Christina Sharpe’s new essay, croissant Temu lamps, and more.