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Paintings of Bodily Residue and Extra-Long Tongues
In Emily Furr’s paintings, objects penetrate the openings of other objects, but the body is nowhere to be seen.
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The Power of Painterly Innocence
Billy White’s artistic kinships seem to be more personal and experiential than cultural or racial.
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Channeling Our Collective Fury
There is an old adage that nothing brings people closer together than discovering that they hate the same person.
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"We Live in a Nuthouse!": Zero Mostel on Art, Politics and America
Mostel perceives that drip paintings can express the scrambled feeling in your mind when you hear the federal government say that you can survive a nuclear war.
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Refuse Transformed: Reuse as Social Repair
These assemblages showcase art’s power and, poignantly its limitations, to effect material transformations.
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Pure Paint, Impurely Deployed
Jason Stopa is a historically savvy painter whose approach to Pop Formalism can cut either way, toward reflexive irony or an expanded employment of the language of paint.
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Hannah Gadsby’s Exquisite Performance In Calling Out Artists Who Abuse Their Power
It is up to consumers of art to ensure that Nanette's contribution to the #MeToo discourse does not get put on one metaphoric shelf while abusive artists persist on another, heroism preserved.
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A Photographer's Vision of Bollywood and Hollywood Royalty
Being photographed by Jitendra Arya was seen as a ticket to fame.
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William Kentridge's Real and Metaphorical Cages Illuminate a Protest on Deportation
How interesting that William Kentridge envisioned the cage as the equivalent of a piece of luggage or a goat, something that we cannot leave behind.
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Considering Contemporary Strategies of Activist Curating and Art Making in Sharjah
Part II of a report on the 2018 Spring Exhibitions in Sharjah and the March Meeting.
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Fifty Years of AfriCOBRA's Radical, “Cool-Ade Colored” Art
AfriCOBRA, the Chicago-based art collective that helped develop the Black arts movement, celebrates its 50th anniversary in a new retrospective.