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Three Queer Pakistani Artists Explore Identity and Disrupt Borders with Their Art
Abdullah Qureshi, Aziz Sohail, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr. are collectively redefining what it means to be queer and Pakistani.
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The Afro Pick as a Symbol of Home
Simon Skinner, a Stockholm designer with Afro-Caribbean roots, is challenging the perceived homogeneity and whiteness of Sweden.
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At a Frida Kahlo Show in Brooklyn, the Personal Is Commercial (and Sponsored by Revlon)
Zeitgeisty is perhaps the best word to describe the Brooklyn Museum’s popular exhibition, which takes for granted the idea that Kahlo’s artwork is merely an extension of her constructed persona.
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Transforming a 20-Year Data Log of One's Life into Art
Stephen Cartwright talks about turning his personal information into abstract sculpture.
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A Closer Look Into the Whitney Museum's Board
The weapons manufacturer isn't the only board member with ties to war profiteering and the Trump administration at a progressive institution like the Whitney Museum.
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Developing a Collective Language of Resistance Across the Centuries
It’s not often that you find a space in which communication is not only possible, but encouraged across time, discourses, and borders.
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Willie Cole, Shinique Smith, and Abigail DeVille Discuss Found Material in African-American Art
Artists come together to discuss Nari Ward's repurposed objects as a reflection of place, culture, and identity.
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Is Camp Still Camp if the Met Gala Makes It a Theme?
This year's Met Gala is named Notes on Fashion, in tribute to a Susan Sontag essay. But Sontag also wrote that "To talk about Camp is to betray it."
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Parenting and Labor in the Art World: A Call to Arms
To argue for basic human rights seems to be only acceptable when spoken of by artists in museum galleries, but not by the art workers whose labor underpins such projects.
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An Important Modern Artwork Gains New Relevance for India
As India prepares for general elections this year, M.F. Husain's "Lightning" reminds us of the country's tremendous political history.
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Black American Cinema of the ’90s Was Filled with Promise
Revisiting the movies made by Black American filmmakers, which could only really be fully appreciated decades later.
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Required Reading
This week, treehouses as starter homes, Amy Sherald on fame, photography's role in ending slavery, autism and literary studies, stolen ruby slippers, and more.