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Kiki Smith Takes Over the Eldridge Street Synagogue with 50 Artworks
After collaborating on the starry window that presides over the Museum at Eldridge Street, Kiki Smith returns with a site-specific installation of sculptural work.
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Resolutely Political LA Artists Focus on the Body in the City's Latest Biennial
The body is at the center of much of the work in Made in LA, and overwhelmingly, that body is brown and black, female, queer, and indigenous.
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The Art of Creating Replicas of Ice Age Cave Paintings
The idea that art is an expression valued for originality is put to the test with the study and replication of caves painted during the Pleistocene.
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The Italian Gallery Brokering an International Market for North Korean Art
Much of the art that leaves North Korea travels to a small village outside Tuscany, where Pier Luigi Cecioni runs his gallery.
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A Video Game Takes You Cross-Country into the Origins of American Folklore
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a game of gathering and sharing stories, which grow and change in the telling.
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Textile Art Threads Through a Showcase of Southern California MFA Grads
The annual SoCal MFA show brings together graduating MFA students from all over Southern California, and this year's exhibition is full of fiber art.
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Issues of Intimacy, Distance, and Disavowal in Writing About Deana Lawson’s Work
The story of this essay, its rejection by the artist and her gallery, and by Aperture and Frieze raise critical questions about the relationship between living artists and critical mechanisms for evaluating their work.
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Required Reading
This week, the best of the architecture biennial in Venice, Kerry James Marshall on Charles White, the problematic "Glendale Biennial," telling the story of the Chinatown Art Brigade, and more.
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Terry Winters Draws the Shape of Space
In his best drawings, everything is keyed to the way that Winters attains difference while doing the same thing over and over.
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This Black Cloud Called Trump
Fifteen months ago, Trump was just beginning to embrace power; now he’s well into the dismantling of our democracy.
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When the Spirits Guide the Hand
An intriguing exhibition focuses on art whose makers were compelled to create it by forces greater — and far beyond — themselves.
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The Art that Flourished Under Mussolini
While unquestionably autocratic, Mussolini did not oppose the proliferation of unofficial artistic styles.