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Canadian City Clashes With Artist Over a Park’s Racist History

by Rhea Nayyar October 31, 2022October 31, 2022

The city of Calgary commissioned artist Annie Wong to create a site-specific work addressing the problematic history of James Short Park. So why was it taken down after four days?

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Jean Shin Wants to Change the Tide of Pollution and Extinction

Avatar photo by Isabella Segalovich September 18, 2022September 16, 2022

The artist’s Freshwater installation at Philadelphia Contemporary features a living, breathing fountain, mussels and all.

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An Exhibition Offers an Ode to the Nuances of Diasporic Identities

Avatar photo by Yume Murphy July 19, 2021July 21, 2021

Collectively, the artists in Open Call present a series of equally localized and haptic meditations on what it takes to be present in an increasingly globalized world.

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Theaster Gates Finds Community in Labor

Avatar photo by Robert Archambeau July 17, 2021July 16, 2021

Gates joins ideas of labor, function, and property with aesthetic and art historical concerns.

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Beer With a Painter: Judy Pfaff

by Jennifer Samet May 23, 2020May 23, 2020

“Generosity and openness are important to me, so that the viewer is not intimidated, threatened, or belittled.”

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Isaac Julien’s Political Memory

by Nicole Miller April 18, 2020April 18, 2020

Western Union: Small Boats provokes our dread and desire.

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Rachelle Dang’s Meditation on Past and Present

Avatar photo by Louis Bury July 13, 2019July 12, 2019

If white often symbolizes innocence and purity, Dang’s pervasive use of the color gives her tropical tableau a ghostly, washed-out feel.

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An Abandoned Detroit Church Poetically and Subtly Divided in Two

by Sarah Rose Sharp June 1, 2018June 3, 2018

Manal Shoukair’s installation at Shylo Arts, a transparent scrim stretched across the entire space at about chest level, is an understated but powerful intervention.

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Danh Vo’s Elegy for Democracy

by Christopher Lyon March 31, 2018March 30, 2018

Drawing on many genres and styles, Vo meditates on history, freedom, love, faith, and death.

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An Installation Weaves Through a Brooklyn Cemetery Chapel

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 12, 2016October 12, 2016

Aaron Asis has strung fuchsia parachute cord through the chapel at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery as part of a series of interventions at the burial ground.

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A Blimp Floats in a Gallery, Imagining the View from Space

by Philip A Hartigan September 20, 2016

CHICAGO — The Sidney R. Yates gallery in the Chicago Cultural Center is a large space on the top floor of a neoclassical-style building on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue.

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Paint Flows Over a Rockaway Ruin Like Hurricane Waves

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 4, 2016July 5, 2016

One of the most remarkable places accessible to the public in New York City is the ruins of the Fort Tilden military base on the Rockaway Peninsula, where huge batteries with now-empty heavy gun turrets open to the beach.

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