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Florida’s Love for Shiny Glass Art Takes a Surprisingly Political Turn
In a city where decorative glass art is embarrassingly popular, Glasstress at the Boca Raton Museum of Art highlights sociopolitical subjects.
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Emily Dickinson Was Less Reclusive Than We Think
I’m Nobody! Who are you? The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson at the Morgan Library reveals the poet to be far more socially engaged than we've believed her to be.
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Resurrecting the First World’s Fair in the US Through Its Relics
A Bard Graduate Center exhibition reassembles the forgotten history of New York's 1853–54 Crystal Palace through rare artifacts.
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Two Different Artists Marvel at the Modern Means of Travel
At Richard Taittinger Gallery, painter Nirveda Alleck and sculptor Eric van Hove evoke the mechanics of the modern world.
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A Dance About Decolonizing the Body at EFA Project Space
On May 13 at EFA Project Space, Zavé Martohardjono will perform a work that focuses on freeing the body from colonial time structures.
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Lezley Saar Explores Gender Fluidity at Walter Maciel Gallery
Lezley Saar, who is part of one of the most prolific families in contemporary American art, has a new solo show titled Gender Renaissance opening this Saturday.
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A View into the Living Room of America
If there ever was one American psychic space, soul, or ethos, it forked a long time ago into divergent streams you can see in this show.
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Malta Returns to the Venice Biennale After 17 Years
Malta's pavilion offers a sense of the tiny nation interrogating itself as it steps onto the international stage.
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Humanizing a Museum’s Ancient Mummies
"The story of mummification begins with a person's death," starts the Mummies exhibition now at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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A Ceramicist Displays His Private Experiments in Clay
At Volume Gallery, Anders Ruhwald is showing small, colorful ceramics that don't generally leave his studio.
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A Symposium and Festival for Periodicals and Other Printed Matter
On May 11–13, the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU will host an event dedicated to the politics of printed matter and digital archiving.
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Spring/Break Art Show Trades Labyrinthine Rooms for Immersive Installations
For their second fair this year, the organizers of Spring/Break have set up shop in a multiuse development in Downtown Brooklyn.