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Required Reading
This week, emoji chocolate, museums and toxic money, Eli Valley on drawing dystopia, bingeing on Game of Thrones, and more.
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The Secret Paintings of a Hermetic Filmmaker
Jordan Belson wanted the viewer to see only what was in front of his or her face — to scrutinize his paintings from up close.
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Surfboards, Skateboards, and the Question of Art
What is the difference between a painting in a museum and a tattoo on an arm?
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A Universe of Mazes and Meta-Pictures
Laleh Khorramian fills two galleries with visions from a distant galaxy.
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Lucian Freud’s Mountains of Flesh
Freud’s forlorn, isolated figures and grotty interiors resonate appallingly with the steep cultural and social decline fated by Brexit, if it ever takes effect.
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JR, Shepard Fairey, and Other Muralists Collaborate with LA High Schoolers
In addition to their input, students were invited to assist local and international artists in completing the murals, as well as serve as subject matter in some cases.
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How the Curatorial Stereotyping of Chinese Art Essentializes the Work of Zheng Guogu
The juxtaposition of Guogu's concurrent solo shows is a call to substitute a more rigorous and nuanced critical focus for ready-made stereotypical tropes in understanding contemporary Chinese art.
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My First Time Attending the Last Address Tribute Walk for AIDS
The Visual AIDS’ Last Address Tribute Walk is a yearly walking tour that honors artists lost to AIDS-related causes, as well as sites of cultural and activist AIDS-related histories.
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How Social Media Profiles Act as Bizarre Digital Gravestones
As more people die but their internet presences linger, we have to find ways to grapple with these documents of who they were.
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Camp at the Met Museum: A Serious Fail at “Failed Seriousness”
The problem with the exhibition is that it’s simultaneously too self-aware and too clueless to capture the essence of camp.
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“The AIDS Crisis Is Still Beginning,” Says Artist and Activist Gregg Bordowitz
In a retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago, Bordowitz reflects on living as a queer Jewish man with HIV and challenges us to understand the AIDS crisis as both historical and contemporary.
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Paintings of Friends and Lovers Whose Inner Lives Glow Around Them
Louis Fratino’s characters so fully inhabit their emotional states that the world of thoughtless violence and casual cruelty seems to dissolve around them.