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The Spiritual Photographs Khadija Saye Left Behind
Khadija Saye's final photographs before her tragic death reveal misty self-portraits grounded in Gambian spirituality.
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Puerto Rican Painters Who Fold, Cut, and Tear the Canvas
Beyond the Canvas: Contemporary Art from Puerto Rico features an intergenerational group of five artists wrestling with the history and materiality of painting.
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Required Reading
This week, Warhol's first self-portrait goes to auction, Sam Durant speaks about "Scaffold," India's problem with architectural preservation, Zadie Smith on black pain, the six people who created "Silence = Death," and more.
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Weekend Words: Tape
"Which came first, the intestine or the tapeworm?"
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The Homages and Inventions of a Self-Taught Painter
Peter Shear is working through every form of abstraction, figuring out what paint can do.
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The Case for Tom Burckhardt
He resists institutional notions of what an abstract painting can be.
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Decoding the Trump Regime
What good can political art do?
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The Sexual Ambiguity of Henry Darger’s Vivian Girls
An exhibition sheds new light on the Chicago recluse’s most provocative images.
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The Contested Histories of Water
Two group shows make the case that, even at its most innocuous, water still poses hidden dangers.
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The Open-Ended Narratives of a Small Museum
What if Abstract Expressionism never happened?
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Jordan Wolfson Evades the Politics of His Violent Images
At a screening of his work at the New Museum, the artist failed to acknowledge the privilege that lets him reduce violence to an aesthetic form.
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Artists Fill a Lower East Side Building with Murals Before It’s Demolished
Before it's razed, 140 Essex Street is hosting a one-weekend exhibition featuring 10 murals by 10 artists.