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The Alternate Modernism of a Modernist Pioneer

Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern takes a close look at a period when patriotism was distinct from nationalism, populism did not equal demagoguery, and left-wing radicalism was the coin of the aesthetic realm.

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In Centering West Africa, an Exhibition Tells Another Story of the Medieval Period

The medieval epoch shouldn't only be envisioned through a European lens.

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The Disturbing Yet Hopeful Paintings of an Outsider Artist

Bernard Gilardi's exhibition suggests a positive grouping of misfits, a hopeful interpretation of the ambiguity within Gilardi’s paintings as a sanctuary for the odd.

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Documenting the Horrors of America's Opioid Crisis in One of the Hardest-Hit Cities

"I basically went from photographing abandoned houses to photographing abandoned people," artist Jeffrey Stockbridge says about his Kensington Blues series in Philadelphia.

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How Stonewall Broke Through Barriers with Love and Resistance

A New York Public Library exhibition shows how so many people at the time of Stonewall — and after — have been able to live more wholly integrated lives.

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Tax Policy Should be Part of Our Basic Civic Education

Taxes are our only mandatory civic duty. So why is tax education left out of civics?

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A Probing Look at How We Perform and Present the Self

Show Me As I Want to Be Seen resists imposed and idealized models of being by probing the self — the unstable, performative essence of humanity — and bringing it to life with art.

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The Power of Art Lies in Self-Expression

Mirror, Mirror presents art as something fundamental that unites human beings in the capacity for reflection and self-expression.

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Candida Höfer Takes Her Expansive Lens to Mexico

In Mexico foregrounds Höfer's images as records of a site’s architectural and sociopolitical history.

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NADA's Solution to the Growing Cost of the Art Fair

NADA's programming this year focuses on the local, emphasizing the ongoing programming of brick and mortar galleries over the quick fix of an art fair.

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An Exhibition About a Book That Rejuvenated an Indigenous Culture

The show tells a success story not often heard in the world of Indigenous art and culture, chronicling how the Boas/Hunt book has acted as a guide for contemporary Kwakiutl peoples.

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Get Your Brief History of Chicano Studies in This Series of Workshops

In anticipation of an important center for Chicano art opening next year, the Riverside Art Museum is hosting Community Chicano Studies.