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The Artist Documenting the Rise of New York's Giant Ferris Wheel
Bill Murphy has for decades been the unofficial recorder of Staten Island’s changing landscape — a role for which his talents and vision are uniquely suited.
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A Western Cultural History of Pink, from Madame de Pompadour to Pussy Hats
It goes without saying that pink is unserious. But why?
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A Documentary on the Schisms of Second-Wave Feminism
The 1980 documentary Some American Feminists, which features in-depth interviews with prominent writers and thinkers, screens on February 22.
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Celebrating Intersectionality in the Futuristic Netflix Series 'Sense8'
As anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, and isolationist policies sweep a growing number of nations, Sense8 takes us into a microcosm of a world these policies react against.
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When Great Art Makes You LOL
Is funny art actually funny? The answer, as we see it, is a rousing chorus of “it depends.”
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An Artist Stages and Self-Publishes Paparazzi-Style Trump Photos
Many of Alison Jackson’s images feature a fake Donald Trump engaging in lewd activities. Publishers wouldn't print them for fear of legal consequences.
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Required Reading
This week, all the art we don't see in museums, the Met Museum's problems, Tiny Trump takes off, what you need to know about 4chan, and more.
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Weekend Words: President
"I might be President by now if it weren't for this 'queer' thing."
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Jack Whitten’s Walls
Jack Whitten is the most relentless experimenter with materials in a generation of abstract artists who have yet to receive their due, perhaps because no one has come up with a catchy and marketable name for them, like the “Minimalists” or “The Pictures Generation.”
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The Studio Visit That Wasn’t Exactly a Studio Visit: Dan Devening, Mie Kongo, Peter Shear
It is not every day that you meet a self-effacing artist who makes no attempt to get you to see his work, but, in fact, points you to the work of others, only a few of which he shows.
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The Future
The more that our gaze is diverted from the monster of humanity, the more monstrous it becomes.
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Déjà Vu: Mark Williams’s Positive Echo
Mark Williams paints within the tradition of geometric abstraction and considers Agnes Martin, El Lissitsky, and Kazimir Malevich among his “art ancestors.”