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The Intertwined Lives of Artists in a Community in Rural Maine
The artists in Slab City Rendezvous influenced, nurtured, collaborated with, and painted one another, merging into one big happy family.
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In LA, Artists Serve Up a Diverse Take on Food Culture
Offal, a show named after innards, ought to have some messy moments and blunt edges, and it luckily does.
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A Post-Capitalism Ball Imagines a Queer Future
The ball, presented as part of Lambda LitFest, brings a queer perspective to explore visions of society after the current economic system is dismantled.
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A Historic Marionette Theater in LA Lives On, and It’s Still Magical
The Bob Baker Marionette Theater — the country's longest-running puppet theater — has found a new space that seems like a natural fit.
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Flowers Become an Unlikely Means to Discuss Identity and Politics
The works in Figuring the Floral start a conversation, collaborate, and even merge with the natural beauty of the public garden and cultural center Wave Hill.
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The State of Contemporary Art Writing in Los Angeles
Carolina Miranda, Lynell George, and Lindsay Preston Zappas discuss their careers and what they’ve learned along the way.
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Printed Matter’s Annual NY Art Book Fair Returns With 50 First-Time Exhibitors
Printed Matter’s 14th annual New York Art Books Fair kicks off on Thursday night with a preview at MoMA PS1.
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A Festival Forges an Inclusive Community Through Film
This year's Urbanworld Film Festival promises an engaging mix of narrative features, documentaries, and even some animated shorts, as well as a program of discussions and music running through the end of the week.
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The Most Downloaded Artworks From the Getty and Met Museum
Both the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have created online databases that bring thousands of artworks to screens across the globe. Here's what most folks download.
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Required Reading
This week, Robin D.G. Kelley on the Arnautoff murals, Instagram is ruining architecture, animal rights on the left, the best classical music of the 21st century, and more.
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Listening to Plants
Adrienne Adar's attention to botanical sentience seeks to decenter human perspectives on non-human entities.
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An Artist Looks Hard at Painful Images
Diana Cherbuliez’s Trigger Warning looks at our society, where disasters occur on a regular basis and are fodder for our cultural anxieties and voyeurism.