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Kour Pour Reclaims the Geometry of Abstraction
With his latest series of shaped paintings, layered with meaning and symbolism, the artist insists that the so-called canon is informed by non-Western visual traditions that preceded it.
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How Do You Remember a Home Reduced to Rubble?
Through interviews with survivors and satellite imagery, data journalist Mona Chalabi and SITU Research created models of razed houses in Gaza, Iraq, and Syria.
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Framing Heritage Destruction as a Human Rights Violation
The way in which assaults on cultural and religious sites are presented to the public is critical to linking these attacks to atrocity crimes, a new book argues.
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A Glimpse Inside the Dizzying Psyche of Daniel Johnston
An exhibition features over 300 drawings by the late artist, whose maximalist creative output was his main form of resistance against his mental demons.
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BlackStar Festival Returns With 92 Films From Around the World
A documentary filmed in Gaza, the story of a teenager afraid of getting "cancelled," and a biography of Black writer and activist Toni Cade Bambara are among this year’s highlights.
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A Hollywood Hills Gallery-Home Is Reborn as an Artist’s Residency
Beatriz Cortez, who lost her house in the LA fires, is the first unofficial resident of Blue Heights Arts and Culture at the Galka Scheyer House.
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Chance Encounters at Upstate Art Weekend
From September gallery in Kinderhook to Ligenza Moore Gallery in Cold Spring, I set off on an ambitious road trip to 10 art spaces participating in this year’s event.
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Bidding Adieu to Art Deco’s Democratic Dream
A century later, the decline of the movement represents the death of the grand designs it traded in.
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How “Coldplaygate” Became the Meme of the Summer
The clip of a CEO and an HR staffer who got caught canoodling on the Jumbotron has yielded everything from art historical renderings to the resurgence of years-old viral moments.
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Black-Owned Film Shop Photodom Gets a New Home in Bushwick
The beloved store’s expanded ground-floor location marks a major milestone for Brooklyn’s analog photography community.
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Stripper Collective’s Life Drawing Merges Sex Work and Art
The East London group sees their life drawing sessions “as a natural progression from the age-old practice of hiring professional harlots and hussies as models for art.”
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Why Take a Selfie in 2025?
It’s been a decade since selfies took over the internet. While it’s clear that they’re here to stay, the way we take and post them has drastically shifted.