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Frank Auerbach Wrests Light From the Darkness
We can almost breathe the atmosphere of the sad London of the 1950s in Auerbach’s suite of charcoal portraits from the 1950s and 1960s.
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Georges Adéagbo Channels a Humanized Abraham Lincoln
Adéagbo teases out the exploitative and exhibitionist currents in aesthetic traditions, yet his world-making reclaims the emancipatory values of creative expression.
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Reimagine Peace, No Matter How Long the Path
As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Machiko Harada examines how Japanese and Japanese-American artists address the painful legacy of US concentration camps during World War II.
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Sarah Grilo’s Prescient Abstraction
By laying numbers, words, and phrases onto otherwise abstract imagery, the late Argentinian artist prophesized the dread-inducing news alerts of our time.
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Visiting Antigua’s Fig Tree Studio, the Gallery in the Rainforest
Featuring a mix of regional and global artists, the space showcases work that snapshots the day-to-day Caribbean life of today and yesteryear.
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Miranda Forrester’s Soft Portraits of Black Queer Women
Faceless women and interiors on transparent plastic highlight the nuanced identity politics of Black female and queer spaces.
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Inside the Life of Bird-Rehabilitator-Artist-Professor Sheida Soleimani
The artist’s work is the cognitive equivalent of a rock-climbing wall, in which visual handholds open up interpretive pathways.
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Scholar Mary Ann Caws on Women Surrealists and André Breton’s Ass
If you can name more than two or three women surrealists without using Google, the 90-year-old art historian has probably helped make that happen.
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A Maypole Dance for Dogs in Queens
Night and day converge, fantasy and reality, humans and animals, rigor and play in this exhibition that feels like a transportive and unfettered elsewhere.
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The Medieval Dance Between Greed and God
Medieval Money, Merchants and Morality at the Morgan Library proffers example after example of the sad fate of those who hoard money.
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River Garza Shows Us What a True Land Acknowledgment Looks Like
The artist’s “landscape” paintings juxtapose imagery from Tongva culture with the architecture that was built over it, asserting an ongoing Indigenous presence.
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A Painter Suspended Between Beauty and Waste
Something about Phillip Allen’s visual preoccupations speaks to the viewer’s mind and eye, the connections and ruptures between physical and visual sensations.