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The Need for More Complex Exhibitions on Lesbian Visual Culture
I was excited to see Lesbian Matters — as we truly are in desperate need of exhibitions dealing with lesbian visual culture — but I was saddened by its lack of complexity.
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Enter Thierry Mugler's Seductive World of Counter-Culture Fashions
What does the French designers back catalogue say about his tendency to clothe celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Cardi B?
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Erasing the Binaries that Attempt to Contain Our Bodies
The body glistens. It is naked. It is torqued so that the face faces one bearing and the belly and genitalia faces the opposite. The translucent surface that skins the figure gleams wet.
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Photographs Enliven the Public and Historic Spaces of an Indian City
This year's Chennai Photo Biennale is spread across the city, with many heritage sites providing layered historical contexts and compelling physical backdrops.
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How Art Can Operate as Soft Power
As the polarization over Catalan independence deepens in Spain, two recent exhibitions at the Antoni Tàpies Foundation underscore how art and soft power are more relevant than ever before.
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Hard-to-Find Movies Currently Streaming for a Limited Time
For this month's roundup of streaming recommendations, we've highlighted rare movies that are streaming online, at least for the time being.
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Performances from Young Promising Talent in the Los Angeles Area
The National YoungArts Foundation is bringing together a group of 77 award winners between the ages of 15 and 18 to showcase their work.
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Dazzlingly Morbid, Hand-Painted Film Posters from 1980s Ghana
The often surreal or disturbing posters were commissioned by mobile video clubs to advertise roving screenings.
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Using Humor, Food, and Femininity, Bobby Baker Creates an Art of Domesticity
Baker's work utilizes food, families, and femininity to tell stories about women's imposed invisibility, and turns them into artwork.
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Elderly Models Camouflage With Nature in These Folklore-Inspired Photographs
In Norwegian-Finnish artist duo Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen's Norse mythology-inspired photographs there's a beauty in old stories, old places, and old people.
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Remembering Barbara Hammer, Who Envisioned Spaces for Women to Be Themselves
She opened up a space for women to be themselves — fully realized on their own terms. And that impulse is evident both in her life choices and in the formal decisions she made in her films.
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Conversations Between Writers of the Vietnamese Diaspora
Vietnamese writers from around the world will come together for a conversation on writing and diaspora this Saturday.