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Signs of Absence Burnt into Material Memory
In the gallery you can smell this state of being in absentia.
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The Ebbs and Flows of Resistance in the Art World
After a moment of incredible unity around the #J20 Art Strike, the art community's protest movements have fragmented as the reality of everyday life under Trump has set in.
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Connecting Brazil's Indigenous Past to Its Activist Present
An exhibition at the Museu de Arte do Rio showcases Brazil's thriving indigenous languages, cultures, and activism.
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Required Reading
This week, the feud between Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud, Hank Willis Thomas's Guernica, what Google did with your selfie, fake social media followers, Arthur Miller's defense of the NEA, and more.
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Painting by Touch, Not by Sight
Kim Dingle is an artist with a history of working under preconceived constraints.
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An Artist’s Irrepressible Alter Ego
In the world of Ebecho Muslimova’s recurring character, Fatebe, there are no men: they are irrelevant.
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In Praise of the Baffling
Tabaimo is not interested in dumbing down her references to Japanese culture, or in turning her art into entertainment for a Western audience.
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A Chance Meeting in Tel Aviv
Rembrandt and Spinoza walk into a bar.
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Michelangelo's Divine Magnitude and Picasso's Parade of Power
The intimate drawings of Michelangelo Buonarroti and the largest painting Pablo Picasso ever made.
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Conjuring the Demons and Mysteries of Society through Painting
For Collage as Painting, Kate Abercrombie and Trevor Winkfield look at mysterious, esoteric, and sometimes troubling aspects of everyday life.
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Painting the Sky on Sunday
Byron Kim's diaristic texts offer a bird’s-eye view of his life — the youth soccer games, the dinner parties, the glum and the optimistic moods, the children going away to college.
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Seeing Beyond Basquiat's Market Value
With Basquiat’s work transformed into an overhyped commodity, it can seem difficult to assess it for ourselves.