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The Power of Color in Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Paintings
New portraits by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, on view at the New Museum, reveal how the artist uses color to launch into the mind and psychology of her fictional characters.
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The North’s Role in Supplying the South with Confederate Monuments
Confederate monuments would not exist in such large numbers without mass production, which, in the wake of the Civil War, took place more often in the North than in the South.
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An Exhibition Celebrating the GIF's 30th Anniversary
From June 17 to 22, 30 GIF artists will present their work IRL in homage to the beloved image format.
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Artists Show What It’s Like to Live in Your Own Skin
The exhibition at Invisible Exports, Cheap Suitcase, reflects on how the body is a record of a singular life, but also a random palimpsest of whatever genetic heritage one has.
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A Cinematic Installation Lets Visitors Choose Their Own Nightmare
In their vast installation at Pioneer Works, artists Brent Stewart and Willie Stewart provide visitors with many ominous clues and leave them to figure out the connections.
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From Birch-Bark Shoes to Propaganda Posters, Surveying Relics from the Russian Revolution
The British Library exhibition features a wide variety of media, but what’s notably lacking is a sense of the upheaval of the time.
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Eric Fischl Paints the Precariousness of Growing Old
In his new show at Skarstedt, the artist creates confrontations between young, fresh bodies and tired, aging flesh.
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A Journey Through James Turrell’s Disorienting World at the Newly Expanded MASS MoCA
Into the Light, which will remain on long-term view at the museum, brings together installations from every stage of Turrell's five-decade career.
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Peruse a Zine and Self-Published Photo Book Fair Like It’s Your Private Library
The annual Zine and Self-Published Photo Book Fair returns June 16 to June 18 with artworks, photo projects, and self-published writing that have yet to be widely distributed.
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A Rare Deposition from the Salem Witch Trials Goes to Auction
Christie's is auctioning a rare 1692 deposition from the Salem witch trials that helped sentence an elderly widow to death.
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Miniature Universes Constructed from Archaeological Fragments
In his current exhibition TERRAoptics at Sepia Gallery, Vivan Sundaram has created tableaux with ceramic pottery shards from an archeological dig at Pattanam, in the Indian state of Kerala.
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Figures Formed from the Primal Energies of Paint
Janice Nowinski's paintings, currently on view at John Davis Gallery in Hudson, possess a kind of brute grace.