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Reflections of a Conceptual Expatriate
A conceptual essay that explores where we are.
Essays
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Beyoncé's Pregnancy Photos Cast Her as a Venus for the Black Diaspora
Embracing and reinterpreting cultural traditions from which black people have historically been excluded, Awol Erizku reimagines Beyoncé into an idealization that has typically been reserved for white women.
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In Memory of Dump.fm, an Endlessly Collaborative Image Poem
Dump.fm died a quiet, seemingly definitive death this month, after having survived a number of rumored deaths over the years.
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After 113 Years: Have We Come a Long Way?
When I was 14, after reading yet another biography of Verdi, I asked my mother, “Do women write operas?” She looked at me with incredulity and responded, “Never heard of any.”
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In Memoriam Dore Ashton
Dore Ashton could very well be called the Last Irascible, but she would have laughed it off.
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The Need Right Now for Subversive Photography
What does it mean for a photograph to challenge what we know about the world and reveal new aspects of it?
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Everything Points Inward: Capitalism and Its Discontents at an Art Fair in Singapore
Art Stage Singapore’s tagline is “We Are Asia,” but the fair’s dream of representing all of Asia’s art is just that — a dream.
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Why Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Colorado Project Succeeded Despite Its Failure
"Over the River" was never about the sculpture, it was about the attempt.
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A Showing of Art World Solidarity on Inauguration Day
Far from serving as an excuse for self-pity or left melancholy, the Occupy Museums event was an effective counter-inaugural: a ceremony marking a wider commitment to shared struggle.
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Fights to Withhold Paintings from Capitol Hill Show Their Political Power
Recent disputes over a painting by an 18-year-old and another from the 19th century illustrate art's ability to speak truth to power, but also to become a pawn in politicians' power games.
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Outsider Art: Window to the Soul
The Gnostics believed that a demiurge, a being violently hostile to all things spiritual, rules the material world. Its control of things is now nearly absolute.
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Resituating Kerry James Marshall in a Black Radical Tradition
Curators have extensively referenced the white, male, Western canon of painting, but mostly ignore the ways in which Marshall’s work fits into and extends black visual culture.