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Required Reading
This week, the library of King Ashurbanipal, the new Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, geographies of fear in antiquity, China's Uighurs, alt-right New York, and more.
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Melissa Meyer’s Urban Vision
Meyer has turned Pollock’s all-over painting on its head.
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Hilma af Klint, Outlier for the Ages
Hilma af Klint reminds us that institutionally approved narratives generally function as touchstones for conformists and the weak-kneed.
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Holiday Gift Guide
This holiday consider buying some art-inspired gifts to ensure that your purchases help support cultures and communities you believe in.
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The Passion and Inspiration of Creative Couples
Modern Couples explores how creative couples reshaped modern art and redefined ideas of gender and love in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Lee Kang-So's Sensual Semiotics
What is the best way to convey something, especially if the essence of it seems to escape appearance?
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The Brutalist Invasion of Phyllida Barlow
Barlow’s sculptures may be abstract, but they feel rife with heads, teeth, legs, and orifices of every stripe.
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Brash, Self-flattering, Macho Excess at the Musée d'Orsay
In an exhibition timed to promote the release of Julian Schnabel’s film about Vincent van Gogh, the museum juxtaposes 13 paintings from its 19th century collection with 11 of Schnabel's works.
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Contemporary East Asian Photography Through the Lens of Time
The individual visual narratives in Time Frames make up our collective human history.
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Emerging LGBTQ Artists Find Hope Amid a Grim Political Landscape
The Queer Art Mentorship (QAM) annual exhibition, Here & Not Yet, comes at a critical moment for the LGBTQ community.
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Hip-Hop’s Love of Remix Is Influencing Architecture
The upside of an exhibition about hip-hop architecture, a movement in its infancy, is that it’s hard to pigeonhole. But it’s also hard to determine what visually brings all the works together.
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A Winnie-the-Pooh Exhibition Blurs the Lines Between Art, Commerce, and Entertainment
The exhibition flounders in part simply because of the blatant application of its own commercial terms on the viewer, most especially, on children and their parents.