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An Animated Teaching Tool That Breaks Down How Criticism and Ideology Work

“(Some of) The Mechanics of Critique” is an instructional video by Lisi Raskin that unpacks how Enlightenment Era philosophies and epistemologies affect how we engage with the world around us.

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Conjoined Costumes and “Antler-Locked Combat” Reflect the Fashion of the '70s

The Skirball Cultural Center in LA will host a performance of choreographer Bella Lewitzky’s 1976 dance piece Inscape as part of the exhibition Fearless Fashion: Rudi Gernreich.

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The Empresses of China's Forbidden City Get a Splendorous Look

Within their historical context in an exhibition at Freer | Sackler, the empresses of China’s Qing Dynasty succeeded in making meaningful lives for themselves, and that is something to celebrate and admire.

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The Material Legacy of Matrilineal Power in China’s Qing Dynasty

Many of the objects in Empresses of China's Forbidden City, 1644-1912 at Freer | Sackler have not previously been available for research, have never traveled outside of China, and might not be likely to reemerge again.

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Queer Artists in Their Own Words: LJ Roberts Survived Childhood to Champion Revolutionary Butches

LGBTQ Pride Month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer artist and letting them speak for themselves.

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How Tessa Boffin, One of the Leading Lesbian Artists of the AIDS Crisis, Vanished From History

Boffin explained in a 1991 radio interview that she was trying to put lesbians back on the political agenda, but her risqué performances frequently drew criticism from inside the LGBTQ community.

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Figural Sculptures That Weave an Enigmatic Story of Disassociation and Isolation

Claudette Schreuders's most recent show at Jack Shainman gallery, In the Bedroom is perhaps both her most revealing and most enigmatic body of work to date.

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Tate Britain Hangs a Diverse Display of Women Artists Out of Its Permanent Collection

The collection of 60 women artists from Tate's permanent collection, on view through April 2020, tackles the tricky terrain of museum representation.

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Queer Artists in Their Own Words: Damien Davis Likes Science Fiction and Decoding Black Symbolism

LGBTQ Pride Month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer artist and letting them speak for themselves.

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Queer Artists in Their Own Words: Yolande Armstrong Started Painting After 40 Years

LGBTQ Pride Month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer artist and letting them speak for themselves.

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Required Reading

This week, the fall out from When They See Us, selfies at Chernobyl, the Universal Music fire disaster, Trump doesn't read, the rot in US corporate media, and more.

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The Poetic Vinyl of Susan Howe and Nathaniel Mackey

Curated by Shannon Ebner, this LP combines recordings of poems as well as archival material from 1991 through 2018.