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St. Peter’s Basilica Meets the Black Panthers in a Contemporary Altarpiece
Kevin Beasley's installation feels sublime and sacred in its grandiose silence.
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Looking Back at the Strange and Surly History of Bay Area Funk Art
It is disheartening to see this 50th anniversary of the seminal exhibition Funk pass by without so much as a nod from the art world.
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WPA-Style Posters Imagine a Bleak Future for US National Parks
Artist Hannah Rothstein created a series of images in the style of vintage posters for US National Parks that imagines what they will look like if we don't act against climate change.
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Depicting Nature’s Rebellion Against Humanity
In Thiago Rocha Pitta’s The First Green at Marianne Boesky Gallery, nature is not victimized, but rebellious and intent on reclaiming land lost to humanity.
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A History of Blackness in American Cinema at MoMA
The series Making Faces on Film gathers daring and singular films about being black in the United States, from 1913 to today.
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Learning a Lesson from New York City Birds
A public artwork reminds us that what’s happening to the humans in a city is not necessarily the same as what’s happening to the animals.
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A Rendition of Macbeth Updated for Brazilian Politics
The latest incarnation of Shakespeare's tragedy, The Walking Forest by Christiane Jatahy makes its US debut later this week at REDCAT.
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Ai Weiwei Floats a New Project About the Refugee Crisis
Conceived in response to the current humanitarian disaster, Law of the Journey is rooted in the artist's research while on location at refugee camps in Greece
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Artists Explore Indigenity Through Printmaking
Map(ing) is part art show, part residency: indigenous North American artists collaborate with Arizona State University graduate students to make prints
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How Michelangelo and Sebastiano’s Roman Chapel Was Recreated in London
For its current exhibition on the Renaissance artists, the National Gallery collaborated with Factum Arte to create a complex reproduction of one of their most famous collaborations.
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A Botanical Garden Blooms with Chagall
It is no small feat that Marie Selby Botanical Gardens managed to provide a new perspective on an exhaustively studied painter and perennial favorite of the art world.
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Required Reading
This week, making Picasso paintings 3D, best restaurant review hate read, Lucas Cranach the Elder's business acumen, architectural terra-cotta, and defining "re-accommodate."