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Ryan McGinley’s Polaroids of the Uninhibited Youthful Body
Who wouldn’t find the possibilities and uncertainty of youth captivating?
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Artists Form Shell Company to Visit and Photograph Tax Havens
Artists Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti traveled to 13 tax havens in an attempt to visualize the fundamentally invisible networks corporations and the ultra-rich employ to hide their wealth.
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I Am Not Your Negress: On Violence and American Necrophilia
I Am Not Your Negro is a spectacularly and explicitly violent film, and yet it's been described as having “implied” violence.
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Library of Congress Digitizes 19th-Century Photos of Black Women Activists
The Library of Congress recently digitized rare 19th-century photographs of African American women active in suffrage, civil rights, temperance, education, reform, and journalism.
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Seven Collaborations Between Women Choreographers and Artists
Happening April 7–9, Norte Maar and Brooklyn Ballet's CounterPointe series pairs visual artists with choreographers who are making new work for pointe.
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An Exhibition Offers a Visual Biography of Sylvia Plath, Including Her Little-Known Art
The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is opening a visual biography of the author Sylvia Plath, including her rarely-seen artwork.
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A Democratic Dance Moves Visitors at MoMA
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Work/Travail/Arbeid is a kind of communal performance in which everyone is welcome.
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Surveying 20 Years of French Counterculture, Sans Punk Rebellion
In our age of imprudent Trumpism, this astute nasty display felt like dainty relics mislaid.
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Measuring the Social Impact of Internet Images
An ambitious exhibition at the International Center of Photography examines the relationship between new media and the offline world.
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The History of Tattoos in New York, from Bowery Sensation to Banned Art
The New-York Historical Society explores three centuries of Gotham's relationship to the tattoo through vintage images, electric pens, and live demonstrations.
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A Syllabus for Making Work About Race as a White Artist in America
This course offers a starting point: assignments for the white artist to understand their own racial position.
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Clay Vessels Pay Tribute to the Plastic Water Bottle
Jami Porter Lara's slick, black sculptures, currently on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, reframe how we see the ubiquitous plastic water bottle.