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The Gallery That Captured the Spirit of the Black Arts Movement
Founded in 1969 by Nigel Jackson and Patricia Grey, Acts of Art exemplified the spirit of a subversive and consequential period in Black art history.
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Celebrating 35 Years of Rasquachismo
An exhibition explores the distinctions in the term, conceived by scholar Tomás Ybarra-Frausto to describe a Chicanx aesthetics of resourcefulness.
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American Artist’s Love Letter to Octavia E. Butler
What would it mean for the survival of the planet if we were to take seriously Black feminist visions of climate justice in which coexistence with nature is prioritized over environmental plunder?
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Five New York City Shows to See This Week
From Norman Bluhm’s reinvented abstraction to the history of Barbie at the Museum of Arts and Design, we’re looking at a diverse array of art this week.
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How Norman Bluhm Reinvented Gestural Abstraction
Long an admirer of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, Bluhm sought to recreate their sensual forms, unearthly light, and infinite space in abstraction.
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The Luminous Magnetism of the Transformistas
Manuel Herreros de Lemos and Mateo Manaure Arilla’s sumptuous 1982 film about trans sex workers in Caracas is the centerpiece of a new exhibition.
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We Are the New Romantics
Just like Caspar David Friedrich and the Romanticists, we live in anxious times and hunger for a touch of the sublime.
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Gift to New York
“The Gates” was an artwork within an artwork, inscribing the populist impulse of Central Park into 7,500+ neon orange armatures with billowing fabric.
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Daisy Patton Paints Wedding Photos Back to Life
The artist resurrects moments of celebration in Before These Witnesses, whose subjects look back at us across time and offer themselves to be seen.
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Cum Shots Across Art History
In Deborah Kass’s Art History Paintings, the politics of display are just the beginning.
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Inside “Pop-Art Nun” Corita Kent’s New LA Home
The Corita Kent Art Center combines the artist’s foundation, an archive and gallery, and educational and community spaces to continue her extension of art into life.
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Required Reading
This week: Anne Carson on handwriting and Cy Twombly, Roberta Flack’s outsized legacy, the downfall of Shein, the “Zillennial” curse, and much more.