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The Allure of Crystals in Art Across Time
Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today pulls together over 75 objects from multiple eras and continents for this millennia-spanning survey on artists' use of crystals.
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At the Istanbul Biennial, Pondering Just How Scared We All Are — or Should Be
In The Seventh Continent, installations don’t so much play off one another as lead to a feeling of fatigue, as one ponders a stream of disparate weighty topics in rapid succession.
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Where Did All of the Art Spaces Go? Greenpoint Gallery Night Enters Its 15th Edition
With the artwork curated mostly by participating businesses, the biannual art crawl felt more like a tour of the Brooklyn neighborhood's retail culture than a gallery night.
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A Poignant Tour of a Disappearing Queer Neighborhood in Portland
At the Portland Biennial, artists offer an unfiltered view of the state of Oregon at this moment. Carla Rossi's tour of Vaseline Alley as a drag “clown” is one of the highlights.
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Learn How to Volunteer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has over 1,400 volunteers, but it's looking for more.
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A "Last Supper" Recreated With DC Locals Has Been Hidden in Former Church's Walls
The frieze was discovered during a rehab of a building in Columbia Heights. Its reemergence tells a story of gentrification and DC’s Black community.
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Fragile Borders and Rituals of Remembrance
In Paper Borders artists Emma Nishimura and Tahir Carl Karmali articulate the experience of displacement using delicate materials crafted by hand.
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Gloria Anzaldúa’s Groundbreaking Book About Life on the Borders Gets a Marathon Reading
A mix of voices filled the room with passages from Borderlands, serving as a powerful antidote to the violent racism and xenophobia that characterizes our current political moment.
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A Requiem for the Anti-Klan Marchers Killed in 1979
A commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Greensboro Massacre will include a community reading of Emily Mann’s play Greensboro: A Requiem.
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Required Reading
The week, a protest performance at the National Portrait Gallery, Disney's weird policy towards classic Fox movies, words about perception, the lack of food in video games, criminalizing the b-word, and more.
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Gauguin’s Predatory Colonial Gaze
Is it fair to use contemporary standards to judge a man who died 116 years ago?
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Painting Outside the Safe Zone
It is not so much what message is narrated or illustrated, but how the form of the painting is questioned in its realization.