While the South Asian diaspora is one of the largest and most widely dispersed in the world, the Indo-Caribbean community is often overlooked and excluded from discussions of South Asian art.
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Programming Language Design as Art
Open-ended, community based, and collaborative, “esolangs” serve as a reminder that digital art has other histories and other futures.
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The Cass Corridor Movement’s Salvation Through Salvage
Working with what they had, Cass Corridor artists scrapped and repurposed anything they could get their hands on, attempting to find some salvation for their city through a literal process of salvage and reuse.
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The Phillips Collection Celebrates a Century by Centering Black Abstraction
With two stellar retrospectives, one time-based installation, and several commissions by local artists, the Phillips Collection has dedicated its galleries to highlighting abstract work by Black artists.
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Digital Exhibition Examines the Darker Side of Bananas
The banana’s dominance and ubiquity has had serious and far-reaching implications for the region, engendering exploitative labor systems, climate change, and migration.
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Looking to the Future of Art Restitution
For many people and organizations,restitution is simply the beginning of a long fight for cultural heritage and the right to remember.
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A Return to The Matrix Explores Binary Thinking
With The Matrix Resurrections, writer/director Lana Wachowski critically examines how our understanding of gender and identity has changed since the original trilogy.
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How the First “Viral” Media Spawned a Peasant Uprising in Germany
Pamphlets on Reformation-era poverty, widely considered Europe’s first drafts of human rights, were printed millions of times in the early 16th century.
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How Joan and Jack Quinn Built a Major Art Collection Based on Friendship
Seeing On the Edge purely in art historical terms misses what the Quinn family and their guests have been appreciating for years, that their collection is really about friendship and encouragement.
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The New West Side Story Brings the Show’s Father Issues to the Fore
Director Steven Spielberg, long fixated on absent dads, interrogates this theme and other issues of patriarchy and gender roles in his cinematic take on the classic show.
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In Ethiopia, Artists Protect the Environment Through “Plant Graffiti”
Researchers and artists are working to restore biodiversity in Kofele, Ethiopia, through a 50-meter tree nursery in the shape of a lion that will be visible from outer space.
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A Coalition of Artists Promote Indigenous and Environmental Struggles Through Open Access Art
Throughout 2021, Indigenous water protectors and climate justice groups have distributed copyright-free artworks supporting recent anti-pipeline protests in Minnesota.