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Artists Respond to the Criminal Justice System
On Friday, A Blade of Grass and the Lower Eastside Girls Club presents a screening, discussion, and gathering in which artists respond to the American criminal justice system.
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Remembering Robert F. Kennedy's Funeral Train, 50 Years Later
In The Train: RFK's Last Journey, an exhibition at Les Recontres d'Arles, photographs shot from RFK's funeral train in June of 1968 take on new political relevance.
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The LA County Fair Unearths Long-Buried Stories of Route 66
Alt 66 gives insight into the lives of those who built, traveled, and lived along the interstate — a diverse blend of race and class, all dreaming of the West.
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At Manifesta, Artists Address Italy's Migrant Crisis
This year, Palermo, Italy is hosting the nomadic European art biennale Manifesta, which aims to address the city's ongoing migrant crisis — but is the art on view enough to foment actual social and political change?
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Eduardo Carrillo, a Painter Who Took Chicano Art Beyond Identity’s Borders
Carrillo’s paintings re-envision the history of art through the heightened Chicano consciousness of his generation and the richness of his bicultural roots.
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A Preview of Printed Matter's Annual NY Art Book Fair, Featuring 73 First-Time Exhibitors
This weekend, Printed Matter's 13th annual New York Art Books Fair kicks off at MoMA PS1.
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A New Curatorial Vision Disrupts Inherited Ideas of Regional Identity in African Art
Laura De Becker's first major exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art puts its expansive historical African art holdings in conversation with contemporary art of the continent.
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Abstractions that Capture the Light and Shadow of an Artist’s Studio
In Juan Iribarren’s paintings, objects are subject to changing climates, seasons, and hours in a day, and the work is a poetic transcription of such atmospheric shifts.
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A Surrealist Painter Who Collaborated with the Chicago Jazz Scene
The story of how the 20th century artist, Gertrude Abercrombie, was entrenched in the depths of Chicago’s dark, turbulent, discriminatory, social, and political reality.
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Diana Al-Hadid Studies Boundaries While Refusing to Obey Them
In her solo exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Al-Hadid continues to let the most elemental, universal facts of bodies morph into unique forms.
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Required Reading
This week, a new Scottish museum, white supremacy and white artists, an art critic records a year of his professional life, fake images of Islamic science, the battle over Classics, and more.
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John Bisbee's Fearless American Steel
Bisbee has never been outspokenly political in his work, but, going by the work in this show, he has decided enough is enough.