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Reframing the American West Through Latinx Eyes
An exhibit at the Denver Art Museum conceives of the American West according to art history, but also through the lens of our current cultural climate.
Gabriel Dawe
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Wondering About the Future of the Smithsonian's Craft Museum
WASHINGTON, DC — The work presented at the Renwick Gallery was always a perfect counterpoint to the artifacts and antiquities, modernist painting, and contemporary sculpture and film on view at the various museums on the National Mall.
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Glasses Give the Color-Blind a Fuller View of the Spectrum
Originally setting out to design safety glasses for use during laser surgeries, materials scientist Don McPherson instead designed a lens that enables color-blind wearers to see the full light spectrum.
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A Dazzling Architectural Rainbow With Political and Social History
SAVANNAH, Georgia — Mexican artist Gabriel Dawe's installations are undeniably beautiful — composed of diaphanous arrays of colored thread in rainbow gradations, the artist's pieces inspire a kind of instant hypnotic daze. As the individual threads move against each other, the taught, three-dimensio
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Weaving Rainbows from Miles of Thread
LOS ANGELES — Everyone's done it at some point — crank up the water on the hose on a sunny day just to see that wonderful prism of light. Now, Mexican-born artist Gabriel Dawe does us one better by bringing rainbows to life, one thread at a time.