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How Do You Picture a President?
We might think that many of our olde tyme presidents hearkened from an age before photography, but this exhibition of daguerreotypes proves that wrong.
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Bimbola Akinbola’s Postcards From Grief Island
Though the show is a response to a period of intense personal mourning in the artist’s life, it’s also achingly universal.
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Otto Dix’s Visions of War
What Dix conveys so deftly is that terror and trauma are felt, not thought, and art about these experiences fails when it tries to make sense of things.
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Museum of Jurassic Technology Aims to Recreate Islamic Spain in LA
The museum known for its mix of history and whimsy received support from the Getty and Mike Kelley Foundations to take on its most ambitious project yet.
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Museum of Jurassic Technology Aims to Recreate Islamic Spain in LA
The museum known for its mix of history and whimsy received support from the Getty and Mike Kelley Foundations to take on its most ambitious project yet.
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The Gay Abstract Expressionist Largely Lost to History
Lawrence Calcagno showed in nine Whitney biennials and was a lover to Beauford Delaney, but his legacy is yet to be fully explored.
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With Humor, Bras, and Yapping Dogs, an Artist Explores Self-Image
Jiwon Rhie’s clean but playful investigations into societal practices and our own perceptions of ourselves put sensitivity and jest at an equal level.
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Presidential Debate Memes That Channel Our Never-Ending Screams
We must find ways to laugh so that we don’t cry, and the depressing material from last night is undoubtedly premium crop ripe for picking on.
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Required Reading
This week: curation and BDSM, America’s first lesbian magazine, myths about the human brain, and is smutty literature hurting our romantic relationships?
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A Rewritten History of the Taiwanese-Japanese Sugar Trade
There Is Another Capital Beneath the Waves ruminates on commerce, colonization, and conflict between manipulative forces that fuel the engine of history.
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A View From the Easel
“I learned my studio has been occupied by 50 other artists from 25 countries, which fascinates me greatly.”
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The Fetishistically Fantastic Art of Christina Ramberg
Ramberg was one of the lesser-known — but, to my mind, most exciting — artists often grouped together as the Chicago Imagists.