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The Power of Protest Art and the Dignity of the Protester
An exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem about organized protests asks if they can push us to recognize our shared humanity.
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Required Reading
This week, magazine designers go for the jugular, Trump turned down Warhol prints, the state of the digital in 2017, ancient Roman cities, female photojournalists, and more.
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Weekend Words: Nuclear
"We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we, Jack?"
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Perhaps Eleanore Mikus Will Not Be Under-Recognized Anymore
If we compare her with other women artists from the 1960s working in a reductive vein, Eleanore Mikus seems to have thoroughly vanished, more so than her peers, and often isn’t included in surveys or textbooks of that period.
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A Ribald World of One’s Own: The Watercolors of Gladys Nilsson
It is Gladys Nilsson’s attention to awkward and unconscious things that people do to themselves while out in public that makes her work fascinating to look at.
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The Populist and a Big Sculpture
He uses religion as a way to find a common enemy from within the people. Where is his humanity?
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After 113 Years: Have We Come a Long Way?
When I was 14, after reading yet another biography of Verdi, I asked my mother, “Do women write operas?” She looked at me with incredulity and responded, “Never heard of any.”
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It’s Nothing Close to Fantasy: Brandi Twilley’s Imaginary Friend
Brandi Twilley, who was eight years old when Pretty Woman was released, creates an atmosphere in which the real world becomes the phantom, while the fantasy strives to become real.
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In Memoriam Dore Ashton
Dore Ashton could very well be called the Last Irascible, but she would have laughed it off.
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Plié Meets Twerk in a Performance of Black Queer Joy
In Jumatatu Poe’s work, movements that appear classical blend seamlessly with voguing, African dance movements, and J-Sette, a style sprung out of black Southern drill teams.
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How a 19th-Century Painter Turned from Reality to Fantasy
In his early, clear-eyed paintings, Henri Fantin-Latour’s subject was the reality of the observable world itself. Toward the end of his career, faithful reproductions no longer satisfied the artist.
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Diaristic Maps Composed of Tens of Thousands of Photographs
Sohei Nishino’s maps are hellish auto-portraits, subjective representations built through fantastic repetition.