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How an Artist's Activism Nurtured His Painting
This exhibition is a ten-year survey concentrating on Peter Krashes's paintings that emerged in an almost symbiotic relationship with his political involvement as a community organizer.
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An Artist Reimagines His Ancestors Through Costumed Self-Portraits
What separates Ken Gonzales-Day’s exhibition Bone-Grass Boy from the mass of artwork addressing the politics of representation is its investment in intimate autobiography.
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Performa 17 is Inspired by the Anarchic, Restlessly Inventive Spirit of Dada
At a moment as dystopian and erratic as Dada itself, the performance biennial presents work rife with whimsy and depth to confront complex histories and a stupefying present.
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Sanford Biggers Summons the Power of Deep Music
Biggers's current exhibition at Marianne Boesky gallery, Selah, taps into something deeply powerful and ancestral.
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A Hidden Flaneur Who Records the Minutiae of Street Life
Mikiko Hara made a conscious decision to discard reliance on the viewfinder, which led to a body of work that is true to her intention to capture street life as a continuous process.
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At Storm King, a Half-Buried Roof Shelters Oral Histories
Heather Hart's "The Oracle of Lacuna" creates spaces for communal exploration of little-known regional oral histories.
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Go Behind the Scenes of 9 Museums With These Great Online Web Series
These nine museums are using online video series to take viewers behind the scenes of their collections.
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Larry Rivers’s Unrelenting Passion for the Figure
(RE)APPROPRIATIONS at Tibor de Nagy exhibits Rivers's passion for and innate ability to paint figures convincingly, rendering them with sensitivity and expressiveness.
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A Sea of Suspended Boats Evokes the Migrant’s Perilous Journey
Hew Locke’s installation at the Pérez Art Museum Miami features dozens of small boats suspended from the ceiling, forming many horizons that nearly blend into one.
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Trevor Paglen Peers Into the World of Computer Vision
A Study of Invisible Images, which is showing at New York’s Metro Pictures, illuminates the ways that machines interpret and see images.
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An Uncanny, Carnivalesque Exhibition that Tricks and Tantalizes
In Jason J. Ferguson's One-man (freak) show, you encounter one uncanny moment after the next.
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In Chris Ofili's Latest, Self-Denial and the Fantasy of Paradise
The show evokes a prelapsarian aesthetic world from which viewers — following the story of the expulsion from the Garden of Eden — are barred.