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A Pioneering Thai Artist in America
Tang Chang's first solo US retrospective veers away from the criteria of progress and linearity according to which Western art is typically evaluated.
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A Pilgrimage to Art Brut’s Austrian Heart
An Austrian museum presents a wide-ranging survey of works made over almost 50 years by residents and other autodidacts associated with the Art Brut Center Gugging, near Vienna.
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Texas Museum Deliberates How to Display a Mural About Hate Crimes Against Latinos
The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin took unprecedented measures to exhibit the controversial paintings of a modern-day Ku Klux Klan meeting.
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Artists Stage a Contemporary Art “Black Market” in Tokyo
The event was organized to address an existential question that haunts Japanese artists: Is art possible when there’s only a limited domestic market to support it?
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Artists Are Addressing the Tide of Gentrification in LA’s Little Tokyo
The Little Tokyo Service Center is piloting an artist residency designed to help local residents and small businesses address the gentrification affecting Little Tokyo and other parts of Los Angeles.
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The Science and Pleasures of How We See
In looking through 3D vision, we are able to turn flat surfaces into the way we daily see the world, and there is a kind a miracle, so it appears, in that very act.
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The Racial Politics of Boxing
The history of the United States cannot truly be told without acknowledging the impact of boxing on society.
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Mel Chin and Art that Is Proof of Life
Mel Chin's work, while visually fascinating and intellectually invigorating, when it moves beyond representation becomes significant, material, socio-political action.
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An Artist’s Violent and Beautiful Reflections of South Korea
Lee Bul illuminates the relationship between South Korea’s artists and their country over the tumultuous second half of the 20th century.
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SVA Students Reinterpret Intersectionality Through a Queer Lens
Maybe the meaning of intersectionality has changed. Maybe it's less about projecting an image of oneself and more about empathizing with others' internal complexities and contradictions.
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When Our Heroes Die and We Publicly Mourn Them
The photographs of both Paul Fusco and Rein Jelle Terpstra explore what happens when a public figure, upon whom has been thrust the hope of millions, disappears.
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The New BBC TV Series and What We Mean When We Say “Civilization”
PBS has now finished airing its series called Civilizations, a nine-part look at the global history of art, which is a well meaning but flawed production.