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Jenny Holzer Hits Her Mark in a Major, Largely Unnoticed Retrospective
Having 40 years of Holzer’s work in one place means it’s possible to trace lines of activity that are subtler and more poetic than the broad strokes she’s most known for.
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A History of Holocaust Denial Comes Under Scrutiny in The Evidence Room
The Hirshhorn Museum exhibition, filled with reproductions and plaster casts of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, works through the wounds and scars of a gruesome history.
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Museum Hosts Afrofuturist Block Party to Honor Artist Timothy Washington
The California African American Museum is hosting a weekend of workshops and more in Leimert Park.
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Unseen, an Audio Comic Especially Designed for the Blind
The protagonist of Unseen, like its creator, is blind. The characters she fights often underestimate her because of her disability — and that’s a big mistake.
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An Art Fair Brings Over 80 Artists to Governors Island
The 12th edition of the Governors Island's art fair, now titled Portal: Governors Island and presented by the nonprofit 4heads, returns with exhibitions and installations from 89 artists.
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The South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid
The history of the Medu Art Ensemble reminds us of the role artists play in making the aims of revolutionary thinking tangible.
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Pushing the Limits of Ambient Music in a Historic Church
The Steve Roach concert is part of Ambient Church, a roving programming series that places experimental audio and visual performances within unique architectural environments.
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Inside the Dallas Museum of Art's Revamped European Collection
After a summer rehaul, the museum has reopened its European art galleries with rarely seen works from the museum's permanent collection, restored Old Master paintings and sculptures, and a collection of Impressionist and Modern masterworks.
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Tackling Gentrification and Other Injustices Through Landscape Painting
Eddie Arroyo decidedly updates the genre of American landscape painting, recording real-estate developments and gentrification and capturing the flux of contemporary urban landscapes.
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Artworks About Place Struggle Within the Confines of a Museum
Landlord Colors at Cranbrook Art Museum tries to “elevate” art borne of economic hardship and upheavals, but such art needs no elevation; the viewer must seek and find its level.
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The Spurious Progressivism of Spanish Colonial Art
Art and Empire attempts to retell the story of Spain’s golden age by highlighting the global exchange of cultures as seen in the empire’s art and its hugely diverse body of subjects.
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A Poetic Feast Conjures Familial Immigrant Histories
Rather than being haunted by the past, Jane Wong views “going toward the ghost” as a method of reclaiming her family’s silenced histories.