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Manhattan Exhibition Pays Tribute to Teaching Artists
Airhead at PPOW Gallery explores alternative modes of learning within and beyond the classroom.
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How Dinh Q. Lê Unpacked Belonging Through Weaving
In his “Self Portrait #5,” headed to auction in August, the artist forcibly inserts himself and his culture into areas that didn’t intend to include him.
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The Fury and Failings of a Nicole Eisenman Survey
En masse, Eisenman's paintings feel weighty and overwrought, as if too many ideas had become tangled and sucked up all the air, like a one-way conversation.
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Tamuna Sirbiladze’s Visions of Wrenching Intimacy
In Not Cool but Compelling, the artist's works churn with the turmoil of life, like emotions sketched in real time.
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8 Shows to See in Upstate New York This August
Pauline Decarmo’s triumphant canvases, Mary Lucier’s sun-seeking video installation, Edward Merritt’s recycled botanics, Dani Klebe’s country cabin installation, and more.
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What Are Those Giant Painted Heads Floating in the Seine?
Some of the Louvre’s most famous works inspired a series of half-submerged installations for the Olympic games.
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How Hair Weaves Us Together
Styling Identities pushes the boundaries of museum display to incorporate local communities and global art through the theme of hair.
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The Winking Irony of “Ecological” Luxury
The Haas Brothers’ witty functional sculptures alluding to ecology proffer an environment that is knowingly — and laughably — unrealistic.
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How Ted Carey Rendered Queerness Through Folk Art
The late artist’s work subverts the genre’s conventions in its centering of the gay community members he knew or admired and the LGBTQ+ spaces he frequented.
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Queerness and Nature Intersect at Wave Hill
Two shows cast a critical eye on our fantasy of nature as it crashes up against the realities of the world we humans have created.
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Three-Time Olympic Fencer’s Vibrant Photos of Athletic Diversity
Enzo Lefort's stylized portraits of his teammates are now on view alongside works by other Olympian artists in Paris.
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Required Reading
This week: The Bushwick aesthetic goes global, common misconceptions about the Palestinian keffiyeh, Edna Mode is brat, and who can really walk on water?