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Fantasy and Reality Collide in Ka-Man Tse’s Queer Photography
Tse's photos establish fantasy as a premiere space for LGBTQ people when reality may not be as welcome.
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A New Kind of Cinema Meditates on What It Means to Belong
Nguyen Trinh Thi's "Fifth Cinema" imagines a new kind of film for people between bordered nations who defy neat dichotomies.
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LA’s Nomadic and Quirky Cultural Spaces Park Themselves In One Spot
The inaugural Mobile Museum Fair will feature the Exotic Wildlife Museum, the Feminist Library on Wheels, and more.
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A Project Meticulously Lays Out the Realities of Modern-Day Slavery
With a scattered display of everyday objects and cryptic legal documents, Cameron Rowland illustrates a long history of systematic racism.
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Joséphine Baker's Life Reimagined at the Metropolitan Museum
Julia Bullock, soprano, plays the singer and activist Joséphine Baker in a chilling performance in the museum's Great Hall.
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An Artist Guards Detroit's Identity and Who Can Claim It
Tiff Massey’s hyper-territorialism regarding who can claim Detroit as their home comes into philosophical conflict with some of the culture blending she utilizes in a new body of fiber-based work.
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How Alphonse Mucha’s Smoking Designs Made Art Nouveau
His images of towering women and mind-bending vegetal forms, found many audiences through theater posters for Sarah Bernhardt and rolling papers.
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Illuminated Manuscripts Demonstrate that Medieval Borders Were Regularly Crossed
A new digitization project brings together 800 medieval manuscripts and offers a different image of the early middle ages: one of connection and exchange.
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Artists Take Over an Iconic Lloyd Wright House in Los Angeles
Passages, a two-day program of performance, film, and music, will explore the home’s architectural and cultural significance.
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The Poetry of Eileen Myles’s Intimate, Imperfect Instagram Photos
Myles’s photographs don’t feel precious at all, though there is something relentlessly intimate in their flat-footed irreverence.
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An Artist Transforms Her House into a Living Museum
At Flo Kasearu's House Museum, velvet red ropes serve as partitions between those rooms in which “real life” takes place and the public spaces from which visitors can peek in.
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Clyfford Still, as Seen Through His Daughter’s Eyes
Sandra Still offers sharp judgments on celebrated paintings and brilliant details about her father during his most reclusive period.