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Weekend Words: Coal
"I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs."
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Anoka Faruqee’s Dance of Matter and Light
For an artist known for her flawless alignments (or deliberate misalignments) of overlapping wave patterns to achieve a memorable optical effect, the inclusion of “bruises” seems a bold and unexpected move.
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Paul Gagner Is Wise Beyond His Years
Gagner’s attention to details is laced with a sharp, self-mocking wit. And yet, there is a gentleness running through the paintings, a sense of humor at once compassionate and tough.
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Fall into Sin (or Become a Leader)
The question of real or fake news comes to mind especially today (unfortunately, not all of what we’re reading is an April Fools’ Day joke).
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The Trials of a Hot-Pink Sunbather
Ohad Meromi's public sculpture “Sunbather,” perhaps unintentionally, turns out to be a button pusher. And the pushback it has already received is a healthy sign.
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I Am an American: The Photographic Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration
When it comes to the mass incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans, I am, despite the redress and reparations, and the various, unfolding forms of remembrance and memorialization, entirely unconvinced that there has been any resolution, or even such a possibility.
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The Essential Egon Schiele
Any dissonance between the spiritual and the sexual does not seem to have occurred to Schiele: one was a manifestation of the other, for good or ill.
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Peruse a Pop-Up Library of Books by Black Women Authors in Bushwick
On April 2, exchange and peruse books by black women authors at OlaRonke Akinmowo's Free Black Women's Library at NURTUREart.
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The Whitney Biennial Reminds Us America Is Not Post-Race
A slow reading of Ajay Kurian’s work is influenced by a desire to view, parse, and converse with more work by artists of color, and is one of many strategies needed to challenge a dominant, incomplete idea of “American” art.
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Superheroes, Indie Comics, and Trump Caricatures at This Year’s MoCCA Fest
The 2017 edition of the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) and the Society of Illustrators festival takes place April 1 and 2 in Hell's Kitchen.
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A Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance in Maps, Manuscripts, and Art
Gather Out of Star-Dust at Yale University's Beinecke Library is a building-wide exhibition of over 300 rare artifacts from the Harlem Renaissance.
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A Poetic Video Work on Native American Fancy Dancers Goes on View
Dara Friedman's video work Mother Drum, documenting her encounters with Native American Fancy dancers and drummers, goes on view at Kayne Griffin Corcoran in Los Angeles this Friday.