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Why Edvard Munch Began Painting Portraits of the Soul
An exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art illustrates how, over time, Munch moved away from observational painting toward something more symbolic and emotional.
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The Beauty of Bach at Socrates Sculpture Park
On August 9, the park will screen Pere Portabella's The Silence Before Bach, a non-narrative film that celebrates the composer.
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A Listening Party for the Songs and Sounds of LA’s Social Upheavals
The California African American Museum is hosting a listening party to explore the role that music has played in Los Angeles, from 1965 to the present.
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An Itinerant Museum Picks Apart the Language of Dehumanization
The Museum of Nonhumanity, on view at the Nordic Biennial, looks at the ways language shapes "othering."
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A Vision of US Immigration Beyond the Melting Pot
At the Queens Museum, Ronny Quevedo uses the rules of sports as metaphors for the boundaries drawn in public space.
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The Black American Women Who Made Their Own Art World
We Wanted a Revolution at the Brooklyn Museum tracks the shape-shifting radicalism of black women artists, authors, filmmakers, dancers, gallerists, and public figures between 1965 and 1985.
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Required Reading
This week, bus seat ridicule, rewatching The Apprentice, Dunkirk’s colonialism problem, the White House as West Wing, and the future of fake news.
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Weekend Words: Constitution
"We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution."
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Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo Mourn the Fate of Immigrants
We are intent on poisoning the earth one way or another. Misrach is determined to document that poisoning without looking away, while Galindo wants to transform the results of that venom into a salve.
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A Second Look at Teju Cole
Cole’s photographs are sensitive to the brutal dying that is going on everywhere. He knows that looking is not innocent, and that it will never be.
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Filling the Swamp
The churning morass of the Trump administration makes a 140-year-old political cartoon surprisingly germane.
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The Vertigo of Sturtevant
The artist’s presence in her current one-woman survey at Gavin Brown's Enterprise is like a ghost in the machine.