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Shawn Thornton’s Intricate Cosmos
Thornton’s art is the result of his research into the ways different religious traditions convey the underlying nature of mystical and occult experiences.
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A Fog of Now
In its attempts to aestheticize mass destruction and memorialize the aftermath, Central Command delivers a clunky outtake of our near-nuclear demise.
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The More Things Change
Marianne Bernstein, an artist and curator of this exhibition, told me that part of her interest in assembling this exhibition was to chronicle the changing storyline of Sicily and to encourage non-binary thinking.
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Life After Art: William Powhida’s Futures Market
A meta-besotted, multilayered, impudent, lacerating exhibition that pricks pretense and self-delusion on every level.
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Reframing the American West Through Latinx Eyes
An exhibit at the Denver Art Museum conceives of the American West according to art history, but also through the lens of our current cultural climate.
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A New Performance Art Festival in Martinique Is Refreshingly Themeless
At the International Festival of Performance Art in Fort-de-France, performers are given free reign to do what they want without thematic direction or much curatorial oversight.
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Drawing on Firsthand Experience to Depict the Horrors of Hurricane Katrina
Dapper Bruce Lafitte's work records a singular personal trajectory in a grander, historically significant moment.
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A Collaborative Reading of Whitman’s “Song of Myself” All Across Alabama
Whitman, Alabama presents a pointillistic portrait of the American identity through videos of Alabama residents reading the epic poem.
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How the 1960s and ’70s Counterculture Queered Fashion
Counter-Couture at the Museum of Arts and Design offers a new way to think about the legacy of the counterculture movement.
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A Punk Take on The Wizard of Oz Screens in a Massive Graffiti Installation
Wastedland 2 ask the existential question “What else is there?” — in this case, referring to anything that isn’t painting, getting high, or sleeping.
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Hints of Queer Desire in Erased Pornographic Images
In Stephen Irwin's altered images of pornography magazines, figures previously engaged in sex acts are now alone, or barely present at all.
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The Race to Rescue the Remains of an 18th-Century Cemetery
When a forgotten graveyard was unearthed at a Philadelphia construction site, no city agency would step in. The Mütter Institute came to the rescue, but now it needs the public's help.