The Chazen Museum of Art in Wisconsin didn’t quite know what to do with a controversial emancipation statue of Abraham Lincoln in its collection until Sanford Biggers stepped in with an idea.
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Seeking Histories and Futures in Soil
Today’s artists often refrain from imprinting their vision upon the land, instead bringing the soil into the gallery as an archive of nature-human interactions.
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith on Her Life’s Journey in Art
“In this long journey, it is step by step, hand over hand, something like climbing a rope,” she tells Hyperallergic in an interview.
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Lois Dodd’s Life in Nature
From the mid-1960s, when Dodd first took her Masonite panels outdoors to paint, her production has been shaped by observation.
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Painting the World on an Egg
Yakov Zargaryan’s collection of painted eggs comprises about 1,200 eggs painted by 940 artists from more than 100 cities in 52 countries.
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The Untold History of Japan’s Women Artists
Her Brush is kin with the growing number of women-only presentations that reveal a fact hiding in plain sight: great women artists existed everywhere at all times.
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The Overlooked Art of Route 66
Friends of the Orphan Signs sees abandoned roadside signs as a creative and educational opportunity, turning them into revitalized works of art.
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The Comedians Who Helped Define Generation X
In the early ’90s, the Kids in the Hall transgressed boundaries of propriety, gender, sexuality, even species as an alternative to binary thinking.
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Can We Ever Get Closer to Vermeer?
Even when his style is at its most self-effacing, smoothly drawing us into the moment, we remain, inevitably, outside.
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René Mederos and Ho Chi Minh’s Sandals
René Mederos’s portrait of the Vietnamese leader calls us to that moment when the politician sat by a riverbank, theorizing and analyzing a world he wanted to change.
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Goya’s Coded Love Letter to the Duchess of Alba
Goya neatly clothes himself in his own world of fantasy: He will have her in the end. In life, where the climate is much chillier, it was, alas, to be otherwise.
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What Is a Signature in the Internet Age?
As a cryptographic unit for record-keeping, an NFT can be seen as analogous to a signature or an autograph.
