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A Ranking of George Stubbs's Greatest Racehorses
The British elite were racing fanatics in the 18th century, and there was no greater honor for a victorious horse than having its portrait painted by George Stubbs.
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Questioning the Idea of Progress in an Exhibition on the Black Panthers
I’m looking at photographs of the Black Panthers: men in formation wearing black leather jackets, with buttons featuring Huey P. Newton’s image fixed to their lapels.
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In the Face of White Male Privilege Run Amok, a Plea for Artistic Responsibility
ST. LOUIS — What does accountability look like in a world where no one is accountable?
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A Sinking Cherry Grove Portends a Future of Rising Tides
With each foot of sea level rise, four lines of cherry trees at the Climate Chronograph die.
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Reveling in the Pleasure of Process and DIY Culture
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — "The work is the death mask of its conception," Walter Benjamin wrote about writing technique in his 1928 collection of essays One-Way Street.
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Harvard's Garden of Glass Flowers Blooms Again
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The historic collection of glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History recently reopened after its first comprehensive renovation.
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The 1940s Royal Academy President Who Considered Picasso “a Menace"
Sir Alfred Munnings, president of the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts in the 1940s, was famous for his masterful paintings of racehorses.
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An Artist Attempts to Resensitize Us to Images of Violence
BOSTON — In “Inextinguishable Fire,” a digital video by Cassils, the artist assumes the aspect of a martyr while being enveloped by flames.
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Join Hyperallergic for an Art-Filled Day Trip to Philadelphia on October 22
On Saturday, October 22, we're organizing an art-filled day trip from NYC to visit the ICA Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), and Fabric Workshop and Museum.
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Crank That! A Dutch Museum Devoted to Musical Clocks and Self-Playing Instruments
UTRECHT, The Netherlands — Right off the city’s main commercial thoroughfare, where bicycles zoom past with a clinking sound, is one of the Netherlands’ most surprising treasures, the Museum Speelklok (or Museum of Musical Clocks).
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, an exhibition opens on an overlooked Bay Area arts movement, a show in an abandoned hospital explores what it means to be human, Mexican artist Mónica Mayer lectures on feminist art, and more.
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A Lesbian Artist Who Painted Her Circle of Women at the Turn of the 20th Century
WASHINGTON, DC — Tucked into a far corner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, an exhibit showcases the extensive career of artist Romaine Brooks, a turn-of-the-20th-century icon who’s since been largely forgotten by the mainstream.