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In Chelsea, Three Disappointing Art Exhibitions (And One Pleasant Surprise)
Finding a lot of forgettable work from renowned artists, and an unexpectedly happy encounter with a classic.
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Delicate Paintings from Drag Icon Vaginal Davis Meet Monumental Sculpture From Louise Nevelson
With 20 tiny paintings and one hefty sculpture, an unexpected pairing of artists offers a nuanced take on femininity.
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An Exhibition Turns a Tibetan Art Museum into a Musical Instrument
The World Is Sound at the Rubin Museum asks visitors to listen to Tibetan Buddhist art with their whole body.
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The Heavy Light of Christopher Wilmarth's Drawings and Sculptures
For Wilmarth, light and life were inextricably linked — a connection that shone in his art of steel, glass, and paper.
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The Photographers of La Raza Newspaper Bring to Light the Chicano Movement
One LA newspaper made a big impact on the Chicano movement, this event talks about the impact and influence of its photographers.
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Philadelphia's Monument Lab Asks, "What's Right for Public Space?"
In Philadelphia, artists including Mel Chin, Hank Willis Thomas, Karyn Olivier, and Michelle Angela Ortiz create new possibilities for monuments in public spaces.
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An Exhibition About Blindness Engages All the Senses
In Naples, using sight, sound, voice, and movement to evoke the varied experiences of blindness.
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Images from Boston’s Island of Exile
Mark Lamster's The Island That Nobody Knows explores Boston's Deer Island, a former prison and quarantine site that now houses the city's sewage plant.
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A Mixtape for Every Year of the History of Recorded Sound
Considering the soundscapes of yesteryear, one man is offering us his mixtapes from the history of audio recordings.
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A Retrospective of Edgar Heap of Birds Rises High
With public art pieces, biting political, text-based work, and more intimate abstract paintings, this small exhibition illuminates Heap of Birds’s expansive career.
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Required Reading
This week, museum image rights, the inventor of the Papyrus font speaks, why a museum curator quit, is the internet changing time, and more.
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How August Sander and Otto Dix Recorded Fascism's Rise
Questions posed in a two-artist exhibition at Tate Liverpool reflect back on our own politically desperate era, often with eerie resonance.