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Pompeii Before the Point-and-Shoot: The Earliest Photographs of Italy
The first photographic images seen in Italy were botanical prints by Henry Fox Talbot, beginning three decades of experimentation with photography in 19th-century Italy.
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A Center for Women’s History Opens in New York, with a Spotlight on Dolley Madison
The New-York Historical Society's new center is making its debut with an exhibition about the overlooked political contributions of the former First Lady.
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Required Reading
This week, Schultz controversy at the Whitney Biennial continues, Tom Finkelpearl writes about the impact of the NEA, British actors playing American role, new emojis, and more.
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Weekend Words: Tomb
"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
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Romare Bearden’s Fevered Dream
Derived from memory, Bearden’s bayou is at once real and mythic, the Black counterpart to William Faulkner’s apocryphal Yoknapatawpha County.
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Jeff Donaldson’s Celebration of an Alternative History
Donaldson wanted to replace the history of demeaning stereotypes of Black people that had been presented by white, mainstream culture. By connecting his work to Africa and developing a powerful transnational view, he aimed to develop an alternative history rooted in struggle.
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Watching and Waiting
Until 16 months ago, when Donald Trump said he was running for the Presidency, I never was a political person.
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Enrique Martínez Celaya's "The First Kierkegaard"
Kierkegaard has been a constant source of inspiration for the Cuban-born painter Enrique Martínez Celaya, one of a number of philosophers and writers whose work he has studied, absorbed, and responded to.
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In Carlo Zinelli and Eugen Gabritschevsky’s Art, the Life Spirit Endures
Diving into the American Folk Art Museum’s two new exhibitions, it’s quite likely that your head will spin — for all the right reasons — in the presence of some very potent expressions from two unsinkable human spirits.
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Field Report on an Artist and Her Pigs
In her project This Little Piggy, Elaine Tin Nyo is forcing an engagement with the wages of survival against the desire for pleasure, and our unwillingness to tease them apart.
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Two Artists Make a Mess in the Name of Process
Husband-and-wife artist duo Rotem Tamir and Omri Zin created a pair of elaborate contraptions to help them laboriously make balloons and ink inside the gallery.
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See Film and Video Art on the Big Screen at BAM
The eighth edition of Migrating Forms, running March 24–30, includes works by General Idea, Cauleen Smith, Jonathas de Andrade, Sondra Perry, and others.