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Indigenous Watercolor Artists Render the Australian Landscape Anew
Watercolour Country gathers 100 paintings by the Hermannsburg School and its descendants, who continue to honor and grow the movement.
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Was John Singer Sargent an Insufferable Snob?
Sargent’s sitters were all rich enough to employ him — the nouveau riches or (less often) the aristocratic, though it hardly matters.
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Painting the History of India’s Anti-Caste Movement
Upending narrow framings, Vikrant Bhise renders the grassroots and captures the ongoing struggle to end casteism.
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Seeing Ourselves and Each Other in Buffalo’s Black Arts Scene
I can only hope my work helps preserve the legacy of this community as the next generation builds upon the blueprints laid before them.
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Paintings That Capture the Full Force of Nature
There’s nothing still in Melinda Braathen’s still lifes, which are lush and alive, growing, pulsing, vibrating.
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Uncanny Kate Middleton Family Photo Spawns Even Weirder Memes
The Princess’s decision to share a strangely edited image and then apologize for it did little to quell the internet’s absurd conspiracies.
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The Synergetic Spirit of Buffalo's Black Arts Community
The continuum of Black artists in the city has fostered decades of spaces and practices centering accessibility and the link between art and life.
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50 Paintings Invites Viewers to Think Like an Artist
With its hands-off approach, the Milwaukee Art Museum's survey is a reprieve — an intimate place to wallow in mark-making.
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Half a Century Before Midjourney, There Was AARON
Harold Cohen’s plotters and software programs both clarify and complicate the historical narrative around AI and art.
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Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi’s Storied Art Collaboration
Las Vegas Ikebana chronicles both the character and persistence of decades of work produced by the two artists.
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The Artist Using Mushrooms to Address LA’s Poor Air Quality
Alice Könitz conducts art experiments with mycelium in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
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Required Reading
This week, aging and women’s self-portraiture, the fictional language of Dune, an Air Canada AI nightmare, Terracotta army dancers, and much more.