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Drawings of Daily Resistance from the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Delaware Art Museum is exhibiting a series of drawings by Harvey Dinnerstein and Burton Silverman of the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Sculpt the World in the First Nintendo Game Developed by an African Studio
The video game Semblance by the South Africa-based Nyamakop studio has players reshaping a malleable digital world before it petrifies.
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A Utopia of Yugoslav Architecture at MoMA
Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980 introduces audiences to a bold modernist tradition forged by radical, multi-ethnic communities with utopic, collective ambitions.
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Required Reading
This week, Okwui Enwezor on leaving Germany, #MeToo in museums, the aesthetics of W.E.B. Du Bois, British mosques, criticizing Avital Ronell, and more.
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Something Happened in DC
Or did it?
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Fixating on Giacometti’s Doomed Woman
Who is this nameless woman whose first (and last) breaths were drawn nearly 90 years ago?
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Kanishka Raja’s Life Between Two Worlds
Raja, who was 49 when he passed away on July 20, charted a singular artistic and personal trajectory between America and India.
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Making Room to Take In the Depth of John Akomfrah's "Vertigo Sea"
The three-channel film is a story of how humans are ultimately reductionists in our relationship to the ecology — in a world that feels like it is too much for us, we aim to cut it down to a digestible size.
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If It Wasn’t Made as Art, Can a Curator Make It Art?
Curator Nobumasa Kushino raises questions about how and to what extent items and actions not originally intended to be art can be rendered such, and whether they should be.
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Revisiting a Seminal Exhibition on "Third World" Feminist Art at A.I.R. Gallery
Dialectics of Entanglement: Do We Exist Together? revisits A.I.R.'s 1980 exhibition Dialectics of Isolation, important for its promotion of women artists of color at a time when the New York art world was painfully exclusive and discriminatory.
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Immerse Yourself in the Ghoulish Art on Governors Island
One of the Governors Island Art Fair's founding organizers described it as an enormous summer camp for artists. Clearly these artists only vacation on Halloween.
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Creating a Pantheon of Black American Gods, from James Baldwin to Nina Simone
“We’ve had Civil Rights, and a lot of people we idealize, especially in the Black community, we treat them like they are gods,” says the artist Tylonn Sawyer.