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Required Reading
This week, contemporary art and global inequality, Melania's jacket and fascist history, queer Turkish identities, children and their toys, and more.
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Daniel Zeller's Cyberpunk Abstractions
Zeller is a cartographer of alien surfaces — recording something between skin and machine, reptile and vegetation, thermal imaging and imaginary highways.
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Susanna Coffey Studies the Nature of Portraiture
For years, Coffey has produced modestly scaled self-portraits with not a brushstroke of flattery.
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Jeff Sessions’s Secret Fantasies
Stepping onto the path the Nazis trod.
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Van Gogh’s Japanese Idyll
Through willful imitation of Japanese art, van Gogh became the van Gogh we know, perhaps the world’s most famous painter.
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Jasper Johns' Life and Work: A Conversation Between John Yau, Martha Wilson, and William Villalongo
Who gets remembered and how?
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In the Land of Guns, Masculinity, Whiteness, and Power Are Often Inseparable
The exhibition, which consists of photography culled from the Addison Gallery of American Arts’s collection, demonstrates that the gun exists as an ideal, a prop for power, a tool, and as a metaphor.
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Art that Resists Being Pigeonholed by Nationality
A recent exhibition presents the work of three Turkish artists connected through material and conceptual strands through modern and contemporary periods.
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An Illegal Archeological Dig in the West Bank Raises Questions About the Museum of the Bible
The Museum of the Bible has been funding a number of scholarly projects, including an illegal excavation in the West Bank that will certainly influence how the public understands the Bible and the ancient world.
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A Parade Celebrates the Immigrant and Senior Communities of New York’s Lower East Side
At the LES Citizens Parade, senior citizens of Chinese, Hispanic, and Jewish descent pretend to be a moving company, surrounded by cardboard boxes that carry immigrant stories.
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Backpack-Sized Archiving Kit Empowers Community Historians to Record Local Narratives
The new Archivist in a Backpack project from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill equips community partners with tools to start material and oral history archives.
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The Tactile Pull of Keith Smith's Book Art
An exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art features Smith's many and manifold book artworks.