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For Year of the Dog, US Postal Service Delivers a Fetching Stamp
The latest stamp designed by Kam Maki features three elegant, twisting lucky bamboo.
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Activism Imitates Art in London's "Three Billboards Outside Grenfell Tower" Protest
Organizers used visual language to highlight the lasting damage caused by the devastating Grenfell Tower fire.
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The Permanence of Toyin Ojih Odutola's Invented World
In Ojih Odutola's conception of the world, its inhabitants never fell — not from divine grace, not from political autonomy, and certainly not from self-regard.
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How Mondrian Inspired Architecture Around the World
Adding blocks of primary colors can really put the life back into old houses, shops, birdhouses, construction sites, and even parking garages and garbage sheds.
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37 Artists Native to the Americas Weave Stories of Migration and Geography
In a time of bald-faced white supremacy and discrimination, the Nebraska exhibition Monarchs feels vitally relevant.
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How Books Get Banned
Xiaoze Xie’s humble books and photographs are quiet survivors that still hide in the shadows even when they are bathed in museum light.
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Finding Kinship with Witchcraft in the Fight Against Patriarchy
An exhibition revisits the life of the last European woman to be executed for witchcraft.
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Designs of Wonderfully Weird Women Capture the Mood of the Moment
No one ever said being a woman was easy. But Lucy Cahill also makes it look empowering and fun.
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It's OK to Feel Ambivalent About Michelle Obama's Official Portrait
Too often, women of color are expected to support black artists in the abstract — sometimes at the expense of meaningful, critical dialogue.
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The Dadaists' Fevered Dreams of Africa
Dada Africa is an exhibition that exhumes the collision between the Dadaists’ preconceived notions of Africa and actual African cultural artifacts.
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Six Famous Paintings that Were Given New Names
Non-artists have renamed famous paintings before, and they certainly will again.
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Visions of Taiwan and the Powers that Shaped It
As Shake shows us, the island state's geography and political history have a lot in common.