Insurrection is a blunt effort by an artist to find a sensational edge to a national tragedy.
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The Calligraphic Character of Holbein’s Portraits
An exhibition at the Getty unleashes the dynamic character of Holbein’s portraits in ways I’ve never seen before.
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A Barbara Kruger Retrospective Mixes Capitalism and its Critique
Kruger never seemed to mind that the very world she critiqued co-opted her style and spit it back into advertising.
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This Missouri County’s Redesigned Seal Is a Photoshop Atrocity
The design appears to have been put together in a 1995 version of Microsoft Paint.
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The Necessary Art of Leisure
Leisure is contested and in need of protection, especially for Black women artists.
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The Top Archaeological Discoveries of 2021
During 2021, thousands of archaeologists worked tirelessly to continue to excavate, explore, publish, and keep the field alive across the globe.
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Celebrate Public Domain Day With Works by Kafka, Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston
Also available is the first Winnie the Pooh book and Langston Hughes’s debut poetry collection.
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A Return to The Matrix Explores Binary Thinking
With The Matrix Resurrections, writer/director Lana Wachowski critically examines how our understanding of gender and identity has changed since the original trilogy.
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The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2021 Edition
Welcome to our annual list which highlights those who are rendered powerless in a system unduly influenced by the super-rich and the institutions and businesses that serve them.
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How Dürer’s Travels Reveal His Voracious Appetite for Art
Albrecht Dürer always wanted to move on, to be somewhere else.
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What It Means to Curate for My Native American Community
Unlike other curators, my work involves collaborating with Native Sovereign nations, which brings up issues disregarded by US art institutions.
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Wayne Thiebaud, Whose Paintings Were (Almost) Good Enough to Eat, Dies at 101
He mastered the textures of frosting, meringue, and donut glaze, but was also known for his dizzying cityscapes and Pop-like humor.