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Answering the Colonizers of Modernism
The paintings of Kenyan artist Michael Armitage present a particularly resonant response to the expanded, repackaged, and redefined offerings at the reopened MoMA.
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Neil Callander's Timeless Variations on Painting
Pushing his paintings in different directions and never settling for a signature style, Callander rejects the art world’s demand for novelty, entertainment, and the timely production of a latest brand.
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TEFAF 2019, Safe and Champagne-filled With a Few Elements of Surprise
Amid the current state of US politics, the latest fall edition of the fair offered a selection of mostly apolitical artworks as soothing as a BBC documentary.
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What Ancient Stones Still Mean to the Assyrian People Today
The Kurdistan Regional Government's recent arrest and detainment of a journalist for his discovery of an ancient Assyrian stone relief illustrates deeper issues with how both Assyrian material heritage and the Assyrian people are being treated in Iraq.
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Taking Michelangelo's David to the Dance Floor
A group of technologists has found a way to make a digital David mimic the movements of human models.
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An Artist Is Installing Hundreds of Golden Nets on Community Basketball Courts
Jeremy John Kaplan founded the Gold Nets Project to replace deteriorating nets with shiny replacements.
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How Trump Supporters Express Their Id Through Memes
An edited movie clip featuring Donald Trump killing representations of the press and his political enemies recently shocked social media. But violent memes are nothing new in the MAGA community.
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Refreshing Stories Told Through the Collection of a Regional Museum
The Tang Teaching Museum attempts to make itself new through an exhibition that employs a variety of ways to elaborate and convey narratives.
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Happy Doll-o-ween! Museum Displays Its Creepiest Haunted Dolls
The History Center of Olmsted County is embracing the Halloween holiday season with a showcase of nothing but the creepiest dolls from its collection of historical and clearly damned objects.
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The Renegades Making Feminist Art In the Streets
Despite its countercultural status, street art remains male-dominated. Hyperallergic sought out some femme and nonbinary street artists to hear about their experiences.
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What It Means to Talk About the Food Deserts of LA
Projects in the Current:LA Food triennial point to the fact that the city funding the event has often contributed to food injustice through its unequal distribution of resources.
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Free Events at Downtown LA Museums, From Voice Lessons to Film Screenings
This Saturday, a bevy of events, exhibitions, and performances will be free and open to the public as part of the fifth annual Grand Ave Arts: All Access.