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Warhol Foundation Grants $3.9 Million to 50 US Arts Organizations
Retrospectives of Chicana artist Amalia Mesa-Bains and Mohawk artist Shelley Niro are among the projects supported by the foundation.
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The Many Feminisms of Contemporary Art
After years in the making, New Time opens at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
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Rosie Lee Tompkins’s Textiles Offer Windows Into Other Worlds
Tompkins’s quilts are at turns abstract beauties, political statements, faith-based texts, and textile craft.
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Dozens of Museums Will Be Filled With Feminist Art Ahead of US Presidential Election
The Feminist Art Coalition has coordinated with museums nationwide to display feminist art in anticipation of the 2020 election.
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Inmates Annotate an Archive of Prison Photos With Their Own Stories
The results are arresting, as the writers, who are also men in prison, make anonymous images their own, speaking out of their own experiences, bringing insights and empathy that no outside critic or art historian could.
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The Dazzling and Dooming Art of Cecilia Vicuña
The Chilean-born artist commemorates calamity while transfiguring its ruin into another tomorrow.
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The Sweet Chaos of the Bay Area's Artistic Heritage
Way Bay visualizes the currents of unbridled creativity that have coursed and flowed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area over the last two centuries.
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Looking Back at the Strange and Surly History of Bay Area Funk Art
It is disheartening to see this 50th anniversary of the seminal exhibition Funk pass by without so much as a nod from the art world.