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A Pop-Up Show for Social Justice Organized by Hank Willis Thomas, Michelle Woo, and Others
Into Action is a nine-day long pop-up exhibition that aims to reinforce the connection between art and social justice, activism, and cultural resistance.
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Celebrating Outstanding Glass Artists Who Happen to Be Women
Fired Up: Contemporary Glass by Women Artists at the Toledo Museum of Art is an outstanding show, but there is little to convince me that “female glass art” occupies a necessarily separate category than “glass art.”
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The American Realness Festival Returns with Diverse Contemporary Performance
The American Realness festival returns for its ninth year, staging 17 performances across the Lower East Side and areas of Brooklyn.
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A Family Portrait in Ash
The artist uses his relatives' funerary ashes, bone fragments, and old photos to explore a complex family history.
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Finding Birds Among the Ruins of an Historical Archive
In Petrit Halilaj’s current exhibition at the New Museum the artist again explores matters of excavation as a means to explore issues of nationality.
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Realizing Paul Klee’s Influence on American Abstraction
A sense of irrepressible exuberance that makes Klee’s work singular in the history of modern art infuses two current exhibitions of his work in Switzerland.
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Required Reading
This week, Shigeru Ban's Mt. Fuji Center, Basquiat in London, the Met's new admission policy, reviewing Trump's border wall prototypes, the Library of Congress's Twitter archive, and more.
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Exaggerate, Lie, Repeat
Be sure to announce what you’re not going to say.
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The Contemporary Oddities of the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
LACA's non-circulating collection is an ever-expanding project, encompassing documents and ephemera from contemporary artists, researchers, and writers working in and around Los Angeles.
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Painting as Total Environment
Laura Owens, Keltie Ferris, Rachel Rossin, and Trudy Benson are exploring hybrid paintings that rival sculpture in their tactility, illusion, and physical depth.
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An Early Modernist Master of Light Moves into the Spotlight
His best-known work runs for a jaw-dropping nine years, 127 days, and 18 hours, and it was exhibited alongside works by Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Clyfford Still at the Museum of Modern Art.
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How to Have Interesting Weight
The relationships that emerge in Françoise Grossen's work feel like they matter.