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Recharting America’s Origin Story Through Quilts
Stephen Towns’s exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art honors black women and Nat Turner, meditates on labor, and makes room for nuance in debates on depictions of historical violence.
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How the Nebulous Internet Has Influenced Art Since 1989
A large survey exhibition comprehensively traces the internet's influence on artistic practice since 1989, uneasily and unexpectedly revealing how it can subsume both the art and its viewing contexts.
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A Celebration of Black Female Creativity with Pulitzer-Winner Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
Ghansah has organized a program of readings, screenings, and performances at the Museum of Modern Art examining the legacies of creative black women.
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A Photographer Who Documented the Eclectic Subcultures of Southern California
The photographer known as Spot will tell the stories behind the hippies of Hollywood, the skate scene in Hermosa Beach, and the origins of South Bay punk.
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The Powerful Art of Satire, from Aristophanes to Today
At the Brooklyn Museum, a group of artists will trace the influence of political satire to the great ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes.
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Can Art Museums Help Illuminate Early American Connections To Slavery?
Would you think differently about a work of art if you knew it depicted a slave owner? New labels installed at the Worcester Art Museum are drawing attention to the connections between art, slavery, and wealth in early America.
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A New Contemporary Art Museum in Virginia Leads with Politics
Declaration, the first show at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth Institute, foregrounds work dealing with social justice, belonging, and the erosion of time.
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A Datathon Aims to Improve Access to the Arts in Los Angeles
Artists, arts administrators, educators, and others are invited to brainstorm datasets that would increase access to the arts.
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Robert Colescott’s Frank Snapshots of Racism and Misogyny in the US
Colescott reached the heights of a master painter, becoming one of the first prominent artists to embed black bodies and social critique into the art historical canon.
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Testing the Legal Power of Art to Stop a Pipeline
A Blade of Grass and the Cardozo School of Law are hosting a mock trial for Aviva Rahmani's ecological art projects to stop the use of eminent domain for pipeline construction.
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The Opulent and Cosmopolitan Legacy of Iran's Qajar Dynasty
An exhibition at the Louvre-Lens gathers 19th-century Persian artworks, design objects, fashion, photos, and more, many of them on view outside Tehran for the first time.
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Uncanny Renderings of Art History’s Famous Self-Portraits
Allan Rubin transforms his artistic heroes into three-dimensional sculptures made from upcycled tin cans.