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A Film Foregrounds the First Nations Fight Against Fracking
On Saturday, Fractured Lands, a documentary about the Dene activist and lawyer Caleb Behn, will screen at the National Museum of the American Indian.
Events
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Photography's Role in Shaping South Africa's History and Contemporary Culture
The head of Johannesburg's Market Photo Workshop and an artist who studied there discuss the medium's impact on how South Africans remember their pasts and picture their futures.
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Critics and Artists Debate the State of Painting Today
Three Cooper Union alumni and three critics, including Hyperallergic Weekend editor John Yau, "discuss the state and shape of contemporary painting."
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How Oaxacan Expats in California Have Kept an Ancient Ball Game Alive
Discover the origins of pelota mixteca, or Mixtec-style ball, and its role in maintaining cultural links across borders.
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An Artist Borrows from Obscure Books for a Pop-Up Tattoo Shop
For her tattoo designs, Doreen Garner mined the Reanimation Library, a collection of obscure books, finding hand signals and "the occasional escalator going up into a vagina."
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Meet the Monster Artist Who Created the Hellboy Universe
On Friday, the Society of Illustrators hosts a talk with Mike Mignola, whose signature style includes careful compositions, large swaths of dark ink, and shadowy humanoid monsters.
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Learn How to Build a Lowrider
Artists at the Petersen Automotive Museum will teach various techniques, from hydraulics and engraving, to painting and pin-striping.
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The 1973 Documentary that Delved into the NYC Painting Scene
See a rare 16mm print of Emile de Antonio's Painters Painting, which captures the period in American art when post-war abstraction was giving way to Pop.
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Two Evenings of Stan Brakhage’s Disorienting, Collage-Like Films
In honor of the new edition of Brakhage's 1963 book Metaphors of Vision, the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Los Angeles Filmforum are screening some of his most seminal films.
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Artists Share Their Studio Playlists
Chimento Contemporary hosts a live recording of artist Pia Pack's podcast What Artists Listen To, with Zeal Harris, Alexandra Grant, Shizu Saldamando, and Cole James.
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An Aerial Dance with an Abraham Cruzvillegas Sculpture
At the Kitchen, choreographer Bárbara Foulkes will perform an improvised aerial dance with Cruzvillegas's suspended sculpture, with musical accompaniment by Andrés García Nestitla.
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Design as a Strategy of Disobedience and Dissent
Design, according to a public talk in Brooklyn, has the potential to reflect and even remedy pressing social problems.