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Tantalizing Quilts Woven with Poetic, Political Messages
The artists in Piecework embed intriguing, coded messages into their quilts.
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10 Years Ago, Stephen Hawking Unveiled a Clockmaker's Monument to Time
Time, according to a sculpture by John C. Taylor, doesn't pass. It is devoured.
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The Obama Portraits and the History of African American Portraiture
Like many African American portraitists, Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley represent the Obamas as themselves, and as more than themselves.
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An Art Collection Fit for an Executed King
Underpinning this exhibition of work from the collection of the executed king is a focused arrangement that allows the political events of the time to be told through the narrative of the collection’s history.
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Paintings of Toxic Landscapes Where Politics and Aesthetics Are in Perfect Balance
Greg Lindquist's landscape paintings, rendered in a range of queasy-making yellows and greens, address air and water pollution from coal-powered plant emissions.
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A New Outdoor Art Space Springs from the High Desert East of Los Angeles
The Magic Hour, a minimalist, modular structure, will hold artworks in the open air, framed by the landscape.
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A Symphony of Delicate and Colorful Concrete Forms
Cathy Hsiao's concrete sculptures, currently on view at Chicago gallery Goldfinch, possess a surprising airiness.
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A Showcase of Strange and Striking Hairdos at MoMA PS1
The event is inspired by the Hair Wars showcase, which began in Detroit's nightclubs in the mid-1980s.
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A Filmmaker Takes a Road Trip to Tell Stories of Caregiving
CareForce One Travelogues focuses on an American experience that's not often in the foreground of popular culture: caregiving.
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How the Environmental Humanities Can Heal Our Relationship to the Planet
Connecting the humanities — especially the arts — with current scientific research relating to ecology and non-human life is direly needed.
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The Politics and Repercussions of Color in Two Exhibitions
Edgar Arceneaux complicates the viewer's relationship to the history of blackface, and Yishai Jusidman depicts his particular vision of the Holocaust.
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Looking to Cuba's Past to Fabricate Tomorrow's Utopia
Adiós Utopia memorializes the driving utopian conceit of contemporary Cuban art, its galleries a testament to the credulity of this dream.