Harriet Tubman and Other Truths at Grounds for Sculpture bills itself as Scott’s most comprehensive exhibition to date.
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Canada’s Newest Contemporary Art Museum Opens in Saskatoon
A new museum hopes to connect this small Canadian city to the world through a rich program that will include indigenous and international contemporary art.
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An Artist-Run Nonprofit Helps Open Up Myanmar to Contemporary Art
New Zero Art Space, led by the artist Aye Ko, emblematizes the country’s emergence into the international contemporary art world.
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How to Embed a Shout: A New Generation of Black Artists Contends with Abstraction
A new wave of black abstract artists are exploring ways to push the language of abstraction and still retaining their cultural specificity. And they’re not doing it alone.
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Saving the Art and Home of Mary Nohl, Whose Neighbors Called Her a Witch
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is restoring the Wisconsin art environment of Mary Nohl to what it looked like around 1998, when it was filled with art from floor to ceiling.
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A Brief History of Contemporary Art in Myanmar
Burmese artists have weathered the changes from British colony to free country to military state, building a small but vital creative community along the way.
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In Minnesota, Listening to Native Perspectives on Memorializing the Dakota War
The outcry over Sam Durant’s sculpture at the Walker Art Center has provoked reflections on past memorials for the US–Dakota War, and how Dakota Nation voices continue to be ignored.
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In Search of Bas Jan Ader, the Artist Who Disappeared at Sea
In 1975, artist Bas Jan Ader attempted to sail across the Atlantic. The discovery of his boat 10 months later sparked a fetishistic fascination with his disappearance.
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In the Bronx, a Pop-up Art Show Is a Lightning Rod for Fear of Gentrification
There weren’t many protesters — just seven — but they were loud.
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In Mainstream Museums, Confronting Colonialism While Curating Native American Art
Recent criticism of The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky, which closed recently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sheds light on the many issues that arise when mainstream art museums present Native American art.
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Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2015
It’s time for the art world’s annual migration to the far, far, far west side of Midtown Manhattan for the Armory Show and its many satellite art fairs.
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AIDS, Art and Activism: Remembering Gran Fury
Long before Facebook and Twitter made getting a message out to a mass audience as simple as a couple of clicks, the art/activist collective known as Gran Fury used a heady combination of bold graphic design, guerrilla dissemination tactics, and art institutional support to communicate the urgency of the AIDS epidemic in light of disastrous government and political inaction.