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The recent uprising in Chile is full of references to the beloved Negro Matapacos, who accompanied protesters for many years. As his legend spreads, so too do images of the good boy.
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Garden is a sustained mind-meld between two artists’ aesthetic sensibilities, one clearly born from a long friendship grounded in loving, making, and sharing art over the course of 15 years.
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Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers is one of the great films in history to depict insurgent warfare, and New Yorkers can see it for free this week.
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If Hirosuke Yabe’s sculptural compositions are like a Miyazaki-esque stage play, then Summer Wheat’s large-scale paintings form a colorful and dynamic backdrop.
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While The Pencil Is a Key spans continents, training levels, and types of imprisonment, today’s constant headlines about mass incarceration and border detentions lend it a special timeliness.
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Declaring a pro-sex, pro-porn stance off the bat, On Our Backs presents diverse notions of intimacy, in sex work and the communal art and advocacy that spring from it.
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This week, architect unions, Aaron Sorkin writes a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Hal Foster on the new MoMA, Zadie Smith on Celia Paul’s new memoir, Kanye in Wyoming, and more.
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What exactly is the matter with this exhibition? We had expected to be excited from the start, but we are not.
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With her series of plastic surgeries, ORLAN wasn’t using her face simply in a performance, but as an art material.
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An amateur photographer’s images of louche Cape Town nightlife in the 1960s capture a daring, booze-fueled, melting-pot spirit in the face of apartheid.
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Because the contemporary art world is such a secular place, there hasn’t been much attention given to Warhol-the-Catholic, until now.
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The paintings of Kenyan artist Michael Armitage present a particularly resonant response to the expanded, repackaged, and redefined offerings at the reopened MoMA.