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The Body as a Field for Graphic Experiments
A show in Harlem takes on the human form with some surprising results.
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50 Years of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Tricks and Tech Art Innovations
Lynn Hershman Leeson's retrospective at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts reveals an artist who's introduced cutting-edge technologies to the art world and pulled stunts that surprise and unsettle.
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Della Robbia’s Gloriously Colorful Renaissance Sculptures
The National Gallery of Art explores the radical inventiveness of the della Robbia family, the clay and color masters of the Italian Renaissance.
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A Taste of the Complex Relationship between Chinese Food and Identity in America
An exhibition at the Museum of Chinese in America explores the role food has played as a source of hardship and joy for Chinese people navigating this country's cultural landscape.
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The Indian Removal Act Is on View at the National Archives for the First Time
Visitors can read the handwritten 1830 act that was signed by Andrew Jackson and led to the forced removal of indigenous tribes across the United States.
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Dispassionate Films of Crushed Cars and the Mirrored Moon
In his solo show at Andrew Kreps Gallery, Kevin Jerome Everson offers an abstracted extension of the more human-centered work he's known for.
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Learn About the Origins of Museums Across Latin America
On May 11 and 12, the Getty Center is hosting a symposium on the beginnings of art, archaeology, and ethnography museums in Latin America.
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A Conversation on the Contentious Relationship Between the Arts and Community Development
On May 10 at Flux Factory, four representatives from community-oriented cultural initiatives in New York City will discuss how the arts both hasten and hinder gentrification.
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A 19th-Century Photographer of Scottish Industrialization Gets His First Survey
The Getty Center in Los Angeles opens the first survey of Thomas Annan, who photographed Glasgow during industrialization.
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In Search of Olga, Picasso’s Muse and First Wife
An exhibition at Paris’s Picasso Museum sheds new light on the woman mostly known through her husband’s gaze.
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Tracing the Rise of Conceptual Art in the UAE
This notion of playfulness is the crucial lens through which to view this survey exhibition of artists from the United Arab Emirates
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The Octopus, a Motif of Evil in Historical Propaganda Maps
Since the 19th century, the motif of an octopus on propaganda maps has represented the inhuman spread of evil, its tentacles grasping for land and power.