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Splicing Together Portraits of Countries' Leaders
The artist Guney Soykan's Face of a Nation series consists of striking and unusual timelines of countries' political leadership over the past half-century.
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An Audio Tour of the Museum of Modern Art’s Dust
Artist Nina Katchadourian spent two years exploring the dustiest realms of New York's Museum of Modern Art for a new audio tour.
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Kerry James Marshall and the Politics of Visibility
The retrospective of the work of Kerry James Marshall demonstrates a deep knowledge of blackness and a desire to expand the world of art with it.
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Decoding Painted Constellations of Tiny, Mysterious Symbols
The centerpiece of Jonathan Saiz's show at Leon Gallery in Denver is a vast grid of 901 tiny paintings, the circles drawn around them and strings stretched between them evoking a conspiracy theorist's obtuse research.
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Re-performing the Histories of African American Public Figures
In Written in Smoke and Fire, Edgar Arceneaux reappropriates blackface and examines the legacy of a quasi-sacral figure in national history, Martin Luther King, Jr.
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How Zoning Laws Shaped New York City Over the Last Century
The Museum of the City of New York explores how a century of zoning code in New York City has influenced the built environment of today.
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A Cuban-American Artist’s Scathing Yet Loving Views of His Homeland
Luis Cruz Azaceta, an artist who fled Cuba at age 18, shortly after Fidel Castro came to power, is a fitting inaugural exhibition for Miami's new American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora.
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500 Hundred Years of Failed Utopias
USC Libraries considers what utopia means today, 500 years after Sir Thomas More coined the term for his idealized fictional island.
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ArtRx LA
This week, art and music duo Lucky Dragons present the results of their current residency, experimental music collective LAFMS released a box set, artists report back on their visit to Standing Rock, and more.
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A Uterus Flipping the Bird, and Other Images of Feminist Exasperation
In her drawings, paintings, sculptures, and installations at Marian Goodman in Paris, Annette Messager deploys an iconography of anti-patriarchal anger rooted in the female body.
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Reinterpreting W. B. Yeats's 1916 Experiment with Japanese Noh Theater
At Japan Society, Simon Starling reinterprets a one-act play by W. B. Yeats in which Japanese Noh theater met European modernism.
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Transporting Sounds from Nepal’s Mountain Monasteries
Soundwalk Collective recorded wind at 200 villages and monasteries in Nepal to create an immersive experience at the Rubin Museum.