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How Contemporary Artists Are Embracing the Ambiguities of Gender
What’s incredibly refreshing and exciting about Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon is that it’s a queer art show that specifically seeks a space beyond a taxonomic obsession.
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Monumental Domestic Scenes Address Race and History in Detroit
Jason Yates's interdisciplinary project deploys kitsch and abstraction to grapple with the social legacies and the lived present of Detroit.
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An Interactive Story Follows Two Migrants on Their Journeys to Europe
Migration Trail is a 10-day interactive story that unfolds in real time as it follows two migrants on their journey to Europe.
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How Antiquities Have Been Weaponized in the Struggle to Preserve Culture
Surveying the reporting on Syrian antiquities over the last six years reveals a parade of errors, but it is noteworthy that most, if not all, of the errors cut in the same way: to inflate the threat ISIS poses to cultural heritage while ignoring the threat posed by other armed groups.
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Learning About Tactics of Resistance Through Southeast Asian Art
After Darkness reveals the multiple ways that artists from Southeast Asia have renegotiated painful histories.
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Aliza Nisenbaum’s Majestic Portraits of Communities
Nisenbaum portrays her subjects with majesty and importance, upending class and status structures.
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Tracing IKEA Chairs to Their Modernist Roots
The objects championed by Alfred Barr and Philip Johnson look strikingly like items that today are very much a part of our everyday lives — including IKEA furniture.
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So Many Narratives, So Little Time In Act II of the Sharjah Biennial
Act II the final component of the Sharjah Biennial Tamawuj has the feeling of a magnifying glass being held up to the wide-ranging dialogues chief curator Christine Tohmé seeks out with curators, artists, performers, writers, and researchers.
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21 Colorful Art and Architecture Gifts for Your Holiday Shopping List
From a Lego Louvre to a sticky-note pad homage to Piet Mondrian, arty gifts in every price range for everyone on your list.
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A Toy Camera Film Festival Returns to Los Angeles
Now in its 27th year, the PXL This festival showcases the wide range of pixelvision's possibilities with over two dozen films.
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A Poetic Documentary on Carolee Schneemann
This unusual documentary on the artist is screening on Saturday at Metrograph, where Schneemann will also be in attendance.
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Moving Forward with a Fair About Resistance
The second edition of the Forward Union Fair brought together artists and activists for a symposium around themes of social, economic, and environmental justice.