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Queer Artists in Their Own Words: Zac Thompson the Genderfuck Drag Queen
LGBTQ Pride Month starts now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer artist and letting them speak for themselves.
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Three Queer Pakistani Artists Explore Identity and Disrupt Borders with Their Art
Abdullah Qureshi, Aziz Sohail, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr. are collectively redefining what it means to be queer and Pakistani.
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“Your Money Is Safe in Art”: How the Times-Sotheby Index Transformed the Art Market
In 1967, Geraldine Norman was tasked with leading an editorial collaboration between the London Times and Sotheby’s. The project galvanized the conceptualization of art as an investment asset.
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How to Teach Ancient Art in the Age of #MeToo
Contending with misogynist imagery in ancient art raises a multitude of questions that demand addressing today.
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“I Want to Paint Every Color in the World”
By rejecting monochrome and the grid’s guarantee of homogeneity, Stanley Whitney has transformed aspects of Minimalism and Color Field painting into something all his own.
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Fiberglass Beasts of the Wisconsin Wild
A tour of FAST Corporation of Wisconsin reveals the fascinating processes by which contemporary fiberglass public artworks come into being.
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A Neuroscientist Helps the Peabody Essex Museum Get Inside Your Head
The Peabody Essex Museum is looking a little more inward in its efforts to build its audience — at its own exhibition design practices, and then, even further inward, at human cognition.
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“I Was an Artist in Vitro”: Joyce J. Scott and Her Darkly Beautiful Art
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.