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The Unearthed Wood Carvings of a Part-Time Gravedigger
Andrew Edlin Gallery is exhibiting the wood carvings of the late John Byam, a self-taught artist who transformed his daydreams into sculpture.
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A Comics Newspaper for the Women's Resistance
Dedicated mostly to female voices, the comics newspaper RESIST! was distributed for free at marches across the US on January 21.
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A Printmaker’s Nonsensical Designs for an Absurd World
Ryan Standfest’s diagrams are sometimes fraught with Dadaist logic. They are instructions for unstructured outcomes, answers to questions no one has asked.
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Dark Matter as a Metaphor for Arts Activism
Activists are like hidden forces operating in the dark, their effects unfolding behind the scenes.
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Confronting the Limits of Catharsis in a Video About Black American Life
Arthur Jafa's "Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death" communicates a truth about black life in the US: Many of our public encounters erupt in violence or are premised upon violence.
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#TrumpArtworks Is a Hashtag Art Nerds Will Love to Hate
The meme deities are smiling upon us — it promises to be a hilarious (when we're not crying) year.
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Penn Libraries Acquires Benjamin Franklin's First Broadside, a Skull-Adorned Elegy
In 1723, a teenaged Benjamin Franklin created his first printing piece, a broadside elegy recently acquired by the University of Pennsylvania.
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LA Artists Raised $100K for the ACLU — Now What?
A benefit sale over post–Inauguration Day weekend featured T-shirts, buttons, and works by more than 200 artists.
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ArtRx LA
There's a lot going on this week. In addition to the Art Los Angeles Contemporary Fair and free admission to 30-plus museums on Sunday, Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera gives a talk, Jimmie Durham gets his first North American retrospective at the Hammer, and more.
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Christopher Walken Heads, Winged Feet, and Other Sculptures Alight Along the East River
The 2016 Emerging Artist exhibit at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens includes a truck full of butterflies, and a gathering of Christopher Walken heads.
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Resituating Kerry James Marshall in a Black Radical Tradition
Curators have extensively referenced the white, male, Western canon of painting, but mostly ignore the ways in which Marshall’s work fits into and extends black visual culture.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, learn about China's pulp comics, check out a new zine fair for POC artists, spend a night lost in philosophical debate, and more.