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Nona Faustine's Family Album
Faustine's depiction of household shared by three generations of Black women presents matriarchy as a source of power.
Higher Pictures
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Behind the Mask: Photographers Reflect on Black Vulnerability
We Wear the Mask treads a fine line between opacity and revealing truth in its rawest form.
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The Arcs, Lines, and Body of Sheree Hovsepian's Studio Photography
In the artist's work, flagrant playfulness reigns supreme, and the human body points at an unresolved sense of geometry.
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The United States of Armory
Every year, the Armory Show art fair chooses an area of the globe to zoom in on for its Focus section, a curated selection of mostly emerging galleries that often includes some of the fair’s chief highlights and surprises. For 2013, the Armory’s Focus section takes on its own home base, the United S
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The Seedy Side of the Circus, Documented in Gritty Black and White
In documenting the rough corners of 1970s New York, Jill Freedman brought out with her photography something old-school lurid, like the flashbulb exposures of Weegee and Brassaï in the decades before, always offering a startlingly and very human view on her street subjects. When in 1971 the photogra
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Fluxus for the Linux Generation
New York is a city awash in information. If your body was a receiver can you imagine how overwhelmed by senseless Facebook updates and spam mail it would be? It goes without saying that the more connected we are the more unavoidable digital reality becomes. This does not exclude the white walls of t