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We’ve Always Been Here: A Portrait of the US by Two Black Artists
DES MOINES, Iowa — Divisions of race, class, and place haunt aspirations for equality and justice in the US.
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The Overlooked Asian Influence on Art of the Colonial Americas
The Asian influence on arts and crafts of the Americas goes back centuries earlier than most people think.
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An Artist’s Engineering Feats with Flimsy Materials
BERLIN — Walking into the Hamburger Bahnhof brings back a very formative moment in my art education.
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Drawn Self-Portraits Materialized as Masks
For her Second Self photography series, Canadian artist Meryl McMaster asked her subjects to blindly draw single-line contours of their faces, which she then sculpted into wire masks.
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Highlights from Maya Angelou's Art Collection Head to Auction
Works from the private art collection of renowned poet and author Maya Angelou will soon go on public display.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's an all-day performance festival in Chinatown, a discussion of a new book that explores how the internet has changed our lives, a documentary on an underappreciated jazz singer, and much more.
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From Black Performance to Stuff on a Shelf, a Visit to Five Shows in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO — It's summer in the USA, and that means it's group-show season on both coasts.
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Yoko Ono Finally Gets the Solo She Deserves
When Beatle John Lennon, artist Yoko Ono’s third husband, was shot and killed in 1980, Ono went into deep mourning.
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From a Synagogue to a Pizzeria, an Alternative Tour of Stained Glass in NYC
Although it's an art form more associated with medieval cathedrals, there is stunning stained glass in New York City.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, it's your last chance to catch a number of shows before they close — plus an electronic music dance party, a festival celebrating the black soul of Brooklyn, and Ziggy Stardust–themed roller disco.
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Faced with a Rising Tide, Artist Lets It Wash Over Her
For 12 to 13 hours, New York City–based artist Sarah Cameron Sunde stands stock-still in the sea, surrendering herself to nature's forces, from the rocking of waves to extreme temperatures.
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Playing Piano with the Harmonies of Eclipsing Stars
Astronomers have long considered the harmony of the universe as a sort of music, from Pythagoras and the Musica Universalis, to Kepler and the "music of the spheres."