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An Afro-Surrealist Project Deifies God-Like Bodies of Color
Damon Davis plumbs the depths of Black history, fantasy, and mythology to create a vision of power and resilience in his St. Louis exhibition.
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Graphic Reflections on the Sorry State of US Politics
These posters reflect a desire as an artist to “do something” about the social and political upheaval going on in this country.
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Reinstalling a Transcendent TV Artwork by Nam June Paik Decades Later
The master of media art created works that are constructed out of TV sets and recording devices that are no longer manufactured and, needless to say, generally irreplaceable.
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An Art School Started by Marc Chagall that Became a Modernist Wasteland
The Centre Pompidou examines the thrilling but lesser-known story of the People’s Art School, founded in 1918 by the painter Marc Chagall in his hometown of Vitebsk.
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Glimpses of Aleppo in an Exile’s Vision of an Elegant, Eerie Realm
The mysterious promise of the old gates of Aleppo’s old town and its patchwork of faiths are woven through Kevork Mourad’s pictures of "in-between spaces."
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Childbirth and Menstruation in Defiant Art by Latin American Women
It is interesting that so many works in the Brooklyn Museum show Radical Women refer to the one form of power that men cannot dominate.
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"The High Multicultural Court of Wisdom" and Other Utopias by Bodys Isek Kingelez
City Dreams at the Museum of Modern Art explores how Congolese artist Bodys Isek Kingelez envisioned a future utopia through sculptures of imagined cities.
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AP World History Makes a Turn Toward Eurocentrism
The College Board’s recent decision to begin their curriculum for Advanced Placement (AP) World History at the year 1450 CE will omit millennia of global human history and may further support a Eurocentric view of the world within US high schools.
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A Sordid Story of FBI Oppression Told Through Spray Paint, Glitter, and Toys
This exhibition demonstrates Sadie Barnette’s genuine belief in the possibility of taking one’s time to look through one’s past, diligently, to find a political orientation that does not resent this past, or skip over it, but goes through it.
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The Question of Art's Relation to Racial Equity in Mississippi
A new initiative undertaken at the Mississippi Museum of Art wants to have "more conversations about race." I didn't fully understand the need for such a program until I visited the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.
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Dig Into the Archives of an Avant-Garde Bay Area Film Distributor
In honor of its 50th anniversary, Canyon Cinema is hitting the road for an international tour of screenings featuring avant-garde and artist-made films.
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A Radical Series of Gender-Nonconforming Latinx Artists Perform at the Brooklyn Museum
On Thursday, the second of three performances featuring all-Latinx artists, in collaboration with their Radical Women exhibition, will take place.