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A Santa Fe Community Battles to End a Colonialist Reenactment
#AbolishTheEntrada is a demand to end the Entrada, an annual costumed reenactment of the colonial reconquest of Santa Fe by General Don Diego de Vargas in 1692.
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Required Reading
This week, Eero Saarinen in Michigan, rare Tiffany glass in LA, the biggest question artists face today, LGBTQ history of St. Louis, Eminem takes down President Trump in rap, and more.
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The Incessant Art of Kazuko Miyamoto
The key to Miyamoto’s work is repetition that never becomes routine, no matter how mechanical the process might seem.
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Future Dread
Twitter, in the hands of Trump and the Republicans, is a way of postulating speculative fictions, — the worries and woes of possible future perfects.
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The Exceptional Life and Political Art of Violet Oakley
Artistically, Oakley was the American counterpart of a British Pre-Raphaelite, but in terms of her social arrangements, she was decidedly a New Woman.
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The Past and Present of a Syrian-American Artist
Diana Al-Hadid is a cherished former student who is moving beyond talent into something much deeper and riskier, what Emerson called “the science of the real.”
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A Playful Take on the Still Life
Eliminating portraiture from her paintings and compressing the pictorial plane have allowed Holly Coulis to be more idiosyncratic, playful, convincing, and even funny.
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Swarming Geometry, Floral Colors, and Technological Space
Berran’s new paintings manifest an arresting, congenial gregariousness — while also showing their fangs.
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The Turbulent History of Global Chinese Art
The Guggenheim Museum’s Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World presents the conceptual and performance practices that brought Chinese artists into the discourse of global contemporary art.
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Perfection of Form, Color, Space, and Light
In the exhibition Excavations & Certainties, Theresa Hackett’s paintings and Shari Mendelson’s sculptures interact with a transcendence that turns the installation into its own immersive entity.
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An App that Visualizes the Digital Hotspots and Voids Around You
The White Spots app visualizes the invisible digital networks around us, and maps your escape to a "white spot," where there is no reception or internet.
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Seeing Japan Through the Eyes of Frank Lloyd Wright
The architect's photographs from his first trip to Japan reveal his fascination with a country that played a large role in the development of his work.