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The Luminous Effects of a Light and Space Painter
It is Mary Corse’s use of the humble paint brush that allows the viewer to become sensitive to how light is dispersed in the space they occupy.
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David Wojnarowicz’s Native American Inspiration and the “Killing Machine Called America”
Though Wojnarowicz, like most Americans, viewed Indians through a romanticized lens, his interest in the shared death space of those marked as expendable reveals the possibility for collaboration beyond life.
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My Session with an Artist Who Helped Me Confront Death
Lindsay Tunkl’s performance series, Parting Practice: Rituals for Endings and Failure, invites participants to practice parting from ambitions, hopes, possessions, friends, family, and your life.
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Eight Artists of the Afro-Caribbean Diaspora Exhibit in Jamaica, Queens
The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning celebrates Caribbean art in their latest exhibition.
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From Rave Music to Shoe Shining, LA’s Union Station Sets the Stage for 20 Performances
Changes, an afternoon of 20 performances organized by Stephen van Dyck, will bring patrons together from all walks of life.
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Revisiting a Czech Artist's Collages of Human Cruelty, 50 Years After the Prague Spring
While Grimace of the Century at Prague's National Gallery is not dedicated to Kolář's collage series Diary 1968 alone, its constant presence is such that all the works on display cannot but assume a political valence.
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The Political Art that Shaped Cold War Hungary
An exhibition at the Wende Museum explores the art and culture of socialist-era Hungary and offers a chance to consider relationships beteween art and politics during the Cold War.
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The Social Consciousness of Sid Grossman, a Photographer of the People
Sid Grossman met his subjects where they were, documenting them reverentially and purposefully.
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Looking at Queer Constellations of Intimacy
Intimacy at Yossi Milo Gallery unites a diverse assembly of artists tracing the outline of affection from the 1980s to present day.
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“Her Music, It Had a Message”: Visitors Remember Aretha Franklin at DC Museum
Through Wednesday, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC is displaying a lithographic poster of Franklin by famed graphic designer Milton Glaser.
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Queering the Body Using Encasements of Color and Light
Photographer Matthew Morrocco dons a morphsuit, and pays homage to Ellsworth Kelly, in one segment of an ongoing series about the body.
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A Mexican Artist and Muse Reclaims Her Legacy
A high-profile retrospective of work by Nahui Olin at Mexico City’s Museo Nacional de Arte sheds light on the largely forgotten artist and her nonconformist life.