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Carla Williams Takes Ownership of the Gaze
Williams’s scholarly interest in the Black female form paralleled a decades-long private photographic practice that began in the 1980s.
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Michelle Uckotter’s Uncanny Vision of Trans Womanhood
In her visceral works, Uckotter examines a version of trans womanhood unseen in most mainstream narratives.
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The Time Has Come for Artist-Mothers
Fruits of Labor at Apexart features eight artist-mothers whose work, directly and indirectly, is shaped by motherhood.
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The DC Art Gallery Operating From a Freight Elevator
Housed in a working elevator, Freight Gallery opens roughly once a month for just two hours.
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Abel Alejandre’s Chicano Cosmologies
A narrative unfolds in Alejandre’s recent paintings whereby the Chicano moon landing led to the creation of “Xicanoland.”
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Artists Won’t Give Up the Fight as New Chinatown Jail Looms
A public art programming series investigates the relationship between carceral expansion and the neighborhood’s struggle for self-determination.
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Apocalyptic Birdhouses Touch Down in NYC
Artist Paul Gagner’s sculptural avian dwellings offer an absurdist take on the core structures of small-town Americana.
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Required Reading
This week, the movement to “decolonize” chocolate, Lorraine Hansberry’s little-known lesbian fiction, corporate accents, and much more.
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Jeremy Dennis Makes a Farce of White Guilt
Dennis’s exaggerated scenarios compel non-Indigenous viewers to confront racial dynamics that many people in the images choose not to see.
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Alanis Obomsawin Wants the Children to Know
At the center of the acclaimed Abenaki filmmaker’s practice is her effort to counter White, colonialist versions of history.
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Artist Malcolm Lauredo Is Miami's Unconventional Historian
Miami’s Greater Bureau of Time Tourism is an experimental history department meant to combat Florida’s erasure of Black and Brown stories.
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19th-Century “Reluctant Bride” Painting Spurs Flurry of TikTok Memes
Artist Auguste Toulmouche seems to have struck on a timeless theme: women being annoyed about the shit we have to put up with.