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Casting Sculptures from the Human Body's Natural Voids
The connection to between Lauren Kalman’s specific body and the process she has undergone to produce these objects is laid out in graphic terms.
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A Feminist Animation Festival Launches in Los Angeles
The Association of Hysteric Curators has organized the Soft Bytes animation festival, featuring the work of dozens of artists.
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Photographs that Refuse to Stay Silent on the Palestinian Catastrophe
What stands out in Wissam Nassar's photography of the current conflict in Palestine is the intensity with which certain bodies are articulating their task, refusing to perform disability, instead exuding capacity.
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The Art and Friendship of Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti in a Laura Mulvey Documentary
In 1984, feminist filmmaker Laura Mulvey made an essayistic movie about these two artists who lived and worked in post-revolutionary Mexico.
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Make Zines and Screenprint Slogans at a Politically Minded Festival
18th Street Arts Center's Pico Block Party, now in its third year, honors the cultural heritage of one of the most diverse areas of Santa Monica.
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The Secret Photographer Who Captured Four Decades of Life in St Petersburg
Unlike most long-lost family photos, Ivashintsova's 30,000 images show a unique aesthetic, one that she hid from her loved ones, inviting comparisons to Chicago street photographer Vivian Maier.
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The Dark, Unruly Brilliance of a Master of Art Informel
Jean Fautrier was a subtle, solitary, strange, serene, and even severe French painter who experienced a good deal of suspension in his saw-tooth-shaped career.
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An Imagined Feminist Art School in the Amazon Jungle
Mariángeles Soto-Díaz has created a detailed archive for this imaginary school, which centers indigenous and feminist perspectives.
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Required Reading
This week, when Canadian students called the art of Carrie Mae Weems racist, Alexa and the blind, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kanye, black jazz ambassadors during the Cold War, and more.
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Mary Mattingly's Poetry of Things
Mattingly makes the case that poetry is precisely what’s missing from mainstream responses to anthropogenic climate change.
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An Artist Conjures the Ghosts of Displacement
Yun-fei Ji composes a seamless synthesis of Western and Eastern art in the service of his subject: the government-sanctioned erasure of entire villages in the name of progress.
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The Devotional Act of Touching a Brush to Canvas
Francisca Sutil has enlarged her scale and started to work on canvas, and the effects are mesmerizing.