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Graphics: ✊🏽A History of Design and Activism in California 📐
This edition, produced in collaboration with KCET’s Artbound, celebrates the rich history of artist-activists in the Golden State.
Featured
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Matthew Wong’s Indelible Impressions
Just three years after he first devoted himself to art, Wong assembled an abstract vocabulary to create an entire world that is parallel to ours.
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New Technology Reveals Hidden Modigliani Portrait
A portion of this hidden painting was uncovered and reconstructed by two scientists.
Film
Illuminating Professional Wrestling's Most Unsavory Episodes
The docuseries Dark Side of the Ring is a much-needed corrective to the official story wrestling tells about itself.
Interview
Laura Raicovich on How to Make Museums “Better for More People”
Hyperallergic talks to the curator, writer, and former museum director about her new book Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest.
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Radical, Feminist Futures Blaze at the Bronx Museum
Born in Flames conjures entire worlds that respond to wounds inflicted by both capitalism and patriarchy.
Film
Raoul Peck's Frustratingly Incomplete Treatise on Colonialism
For all its bluntness, Exterminate All the Brutes never once utters the words “rape” or “capitalism.”
Art
Terry Winters’s Allegiance to Science and Abstraction
Winters’s art is about decisions, choices, quality of attention, the shaping of one’s existence in time.
Opinion
We Don’t Need More Temporary Exhibitions of All Women Artists
This curatorial approach is self-defeating in furthering a feminist art historical discourse.
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Art Historian May Have Discovered Two Artemisia Gentileschi Paintings in Beirut
After Gregory Buchakjian’s discovery laid largely dormat for decades, his research has been renewed and well-received by scholars of the Baroque artist.
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To Vaccine Selfie or Not to Vaccine Selfie?
As COVID-19 vaccinations continue rollout in some countries, many feel conflicted about the selfie.
Opinion
Monet Was Such an Influencer
Pretty much all of the Impressionists fit the Insta mold. They mastered capturing the individual elements that could inspire envy and endless imitation.