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Wilson's installation challenges not just outwardly violent historical figures but subtle colonial aesthetics still embedded in the city’s more liberal public monuments.
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Long disdained by travelers, the airport will feature new, site-specific artworks as part of an $8 billion refurbishment project.
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To commemorate the 400-year anniversary of the arrival of the first slave ships in the United States, a recent exhibition at the Allen Memorial Art Museum explores Paul Gilroy’s concept of the “Black Atlantic."
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Questions of privilege aside, the range of abstract works reminded me how artists are providing nuanced ways of thinking about identity that move beyond exclusion/inclusion binaries.
Books
The book Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson published in 1994 has particular insights that go beyond institutional critique and into our individual complicities that are crucial to consider now.
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Wilson’s explicit reference to Africa expands the global network through which both cultural influences and African bodies were transmitted.
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In a city where decorative glass art is embarrassingly popular, Glasstress at the Boca Raton Museum of Art highlights sociopolitical subjects.
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The exhibition Black to the Powers of Ten at Oberlin's Allen Memorial Art Museum showcases the artist's extensive examination of black identity and labor.
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In the artist's intervention at Oberlin's Allen Memorial Art Museum, white and black bodies suggest a deeper, racialized meaning.
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1pm: The press preview for Frieze New York 2016 on Randall's Island begins! Or so they say. I am power walking out the door of my office in Williamsburg.
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SAN FRANCISCO — It's summer in the USA, and that means it's group-show season on both coasts.
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PHILADELPHIA — It’s an illuminating mental exercise to ponder: what if Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the pharmaceutical tycoon and physician who assembled an unmatched collection of Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings in Philadelphia, was actually an installation artist before his time?