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At the ICA Philadelphia, Visitors Seek the Insights of a Beloved Security Guard
Linda Harris represents the position that you don’t need to know everything about a work of art to comment on what it’s doing or how it makes you feel.
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Betye Saar Washes the Congenial Veneer Off a Sordid History
Saar's work is a poignant depiction of this nation's fraught history of race relations and gender politics, and this exhibition demonstrates the need for more major retrospectives of her.
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The Allure of US Interior Design in the 1930s
Marilyn F. Friedman will discuss her book Making America Modern: Interior Design in the 1930s at Cooper Hewitt's Design Talk next week.
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Dancers, Artists, and Activists Reclaim Space at the First United Lenape Nations Pow Wow
Lenape community members, in partnership with Park Avenue Armory, host the first Lenape pow wow in Manhattan since their forced displacement in the 1700s.
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Kellie Jones on the Rise of Performance Art in the 1970s
Jones discusses the role that performance played in the work of Latin American and African American artists.
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How the Ghana ThinkTank Challenges the White Savior Complex
A nonprofit enlists thinkers from so-called “third world” countries to build a new arts hub in Detroit.
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B. Wurtz Makes Absurd, Profound Art from Overlooked Stuff
For Wurtz, self-knowledge is not found on a psychoanalyst’s couch or a remote mountaintop, but in the things with which we surround ourselves.
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When the Possessions of Departed Loved Ones Become Otherworldly Spirits
At the Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Emilia Sandoval grapples with the loss of her mother by creating ghostly echoes of her worldly possessions.
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A Follower-Free App Asks You to Photograph Moments You Normally Don’t Share
An app that lingers on the minutiae of your life.
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An Artist and Former Sex Worker Wants to Decolonize Gender in Indonesia
Pertamina, a multidisciplinary transgender artist, went from working the streets to working Asian art shows to reclaim Indonesia's pre-colonial acceptance of non-binary genders.
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A Pop-up Reading of Black Poetry at the Brooklyn Museum
This weekend, the Brooklyn Museum will host a Pop-up Poetry event featuring readings by three Cave Canem fellows.
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How the Museum Is Like a Prison
The Walls Turned Sideways exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston implicates the museum as existing in the same landscape of money and power as the prison.