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How Susan Hiller Has Foregrounded Empathy in Her Art
This exhibition of Susan Hiller's 50 years of work, creates an environment that begs thinking about empathy and its role in making and viewing art.
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An Intimate Look at Charles and Ray Eames, from Their Creative Process to Their Home Life
The World of Charles and Ray Eames, which presents some 400 artifacts, is the first major survey of the Eameses since the 1990s.
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Required Reading
This week, democratizing portraiture, Chinese art heists, Burning Man, Silent Sam, hoarding, and more.
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A Less Explored Side of Jasper Johns
When I visited Johns a few months ago, I saw two works that led me on a search for paintings that did not neatly fit in with his larger oeuvre.
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A Painter of a Different Magnitude
Catherine Murphy makes paintings that get under my skin, that haunt me, that seem inexhaustible and mysterious.
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Trump Crashes to Earth
The Republicans scatter like rats.
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Emory Douglas's Language of Revolution
Douglas’s historical and new works, shown alongside pieces by younger artists, draw a line of influence between the two generations and establish a community of shared concerns.
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Derrick Adams's Transmissions on Art and Black Identity
Adams's artworks have a compelling sense of incompleteness, as the viewer is pressed to consider what is missing within his representations.
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50 Years of a Beloved Detroit Artist's Hauntingly Weird Paintings
Featuring an alter ego named Jonny Strange and "a dragon called Raoul", a retrospective of Jon Strand's mind-boggling work is on view at Wayne State University Art Gallery.
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Why Grown-Ups Should Play With Artists' Books Designed for Kids
A gloriously tactile exhibit at the Center for Book Arts offers a refreshing sense of playfulness in this age of anxiety.
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The Unsung Heroes of Burning Man Go Unnoticed
A host of creative, kind, brave, funny people go unsung in No Spectators, which is centered on a narrow, affluent segment of the Burning Man population.
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150 Phalluses in Feminist Art Today
In the Cut is a seductive and enigmatic mental play in which it becomes possible, inescapable in fact, to glimpse the world through a feminine lens.