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Required Reading
This week, the beautiful new Green New Deal video, Edward Gorey's life as art, a really bad review of DC's Tintoretto exhibition, a David Lynch cameo, and more.
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The Pleasures of DIY Art
Is amusement now considered taboo?
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A Showcase for Shintō’s Gods
An exhibition of rarely seen, ancient art explores the complex ideas and rich expressions of Japan’s indigenous religion.
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System and Sensibility: Dorothea Rockburne at Dia:Beacon
Rockburne insists that her work has a mathematical basis, yet her most moving creations are those least tethered to a methodical, rational approach.
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Reinhard Mucha's Unsettling Precision
Mucha's reflective sculptures ensure that while looking at one work, viewers are aware of others and our presence among them.
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Reflections on Aging, Identity, and Social Justice in Potent Prints
The dynamic curator Judith K. Brodsky makes a compelling case for the historical importance and profound expressions of printmaking.
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Capturing the Unfathomable Cosmos on the Met Museum's Rooftop
Alicja Kwade's rooftop commission at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shrinks the firmament to human scale, questioning the limits of perception in the process.
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Two Queer Artists Recreate San Francisco’s Shuttered Dyke Bars
To Know Herself at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts honors these bars as spaces in which community connections start, and where love grows.
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How Artists of the French Revolution Embraced Neoclassical Revivalism
Revolutionary Generation: French Drawings (1770-1815) from the Fabre Museum illustrates how, as the Rococo movement went out of fashion, France’s insurrectionist artists drew on ancient Greek and Roman art for inspiration.
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A New, Highly Eclectic Space for Arthouse Films in Los Angeles
The Now Instant Image Hall is already carving out an identity for itself as a venue for artists no one else in the city will show.
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Painting 250 Years of Racial Violence in the Americas
In his brightly-colored acrylic works, Haitian-born, Philadelphia-based artist Claes Gabriel addresses the Haitian Revolution, global migration, and police brutality in the US.
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Sewing a Pillow for Every Bed Occupied at US Detention Facilities
The “34,000 Pillows Project” began in 2009, when the Detention Bed Mandate required ICE to occupy an average of 34,000 beds every night across 250 detention facilities nationwide.