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Carrie Mae Weems’s Visual Response to Sam Cooke's “A Change Is Gonna Come”
Weems’s essay is excerpted from Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces.
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How Black Artists Are Shaping a Distinctly Black Gaze
Cultural and artistic icons are reshaping the circulation of Blackness on a global scale.
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The Strange Tradition of “Practice Babies” at 20th-century Women’s Colleges
An excerpt from Megan Culhane Galbraith’s "The Guild of the Infant Survivor," a memoir of an adoptee’s quest for her past.
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New Hokusai Graphic Biography Shares Stories from His Extraordinary Life
At the age of 44, Hokusai took on an amazing challenge: a giant portrait of the founder of Zen Buddhism.
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M. Sharkey’s Luminous Photos of Queer Kids in the US
The light in Sharkey’s images doesn’t so much cover his subjects but illuminates them from within.
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Andy Warhol’s Defiant Hopes for Queer Art
In an essay in "Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire," out from TASCHEN, Gopnik argues that Warhol had good reason to believe that daring gay imagery was where art ought to have been heading.
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Why a Disabled Artist Collective Was What I Needed All Along
I hadn’t just needed Disabled friends. I’d needed friends who could give my experiences context and analysis.
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Reynaldo Rivera's Photographs of a Los Angeles That No Longer Exists
In the 1980s and ’90s, Rivera photographed drag performers in Latinx gay bars, house parties in pre-gentrified Echo Park, and performers like Sade, Vaginal Davis, and Chaka Khan.
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Alison Saar, the Alchemist
Saar makes work that engages the body and the spirit, work that she hopes audiences will find a way to connect with.