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An Afrofeminist Project Uses Technology to Empower Marginalized Communities
NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism engages Black womanhood and technological possibility, rejecting the marginalization of people of color in the scientific realm.
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Queer Identity in the MeToo Movement: A Conversation with Emma Sulkowicz
Emma Sulkowicz stood up against rape culture three years before the Harvey Weinstein story broke, but most articles about "Mattress Performance" erased the artist's queer identity. Why?
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Meet the Arts Organization Directly Aiding Puerto Rico's Hurricane Maria Victims, One Year Later
Whereas the American government is providing loans to Puerto Rican victims of Hurricane Maria, Arte al Rescate is providing direct aid to victims by fundraising through the arts.
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Beer with a Painter: Joan Semmel
“How could I make work that was sexual from a woman’s point of view, that would not turn a woman off, as so much of pornography did?”
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An Art Handler's Magazine Breaks Down Art World Myths
Clynton Lowry on acknowledging the invisible people of the art world: art handlers and preparators.
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Giving Form to the Stories of Syrian Refugee Children
"I want to take the stories that children really do want many people to hear, and become almost a vehicle that helps these stories be more accessible," says artist Essma Imady.
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How Meditation Has Inspired an Artist's Vision
When artist Aaron Fowler discovered he might have been a father, he created a powerful series of works about how it's "okay to not be a perfect person."
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“I Couldn’t Avoid the '60s”: Diane Kurys on Her Early Filmmaking in France
From capturing teenage innocence to 1968, Kurys's slice-of-life movies are sparkling and big-hearted, but not without a caustic side.
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Leonardo Had Help: Oxford Art Historian Asserts New Attribution for 'Salvator Mundi'
Matthew Landrus believes the painting, which Louvre Abu Dhabi bought at auction for $450.3 million in 2017, better resembles the work of Bernardino Luini, an assistant in Da Vinci's studio.
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A Rural Artist-Run Gallery in Upstate New York Works to Start a Scene
Julie Torres was a Brooklyn artist, but then one day she and her partner, artist Ellen Letcher, decided to leave it all and head upstate.
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Kenyan Wildlife May Have Inspired Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax
A new essay suggests that the patas monkey and its ecological relationship with the whistling thorn acacia tree inspired Dr. Seuss’s famous environmental children’s book.
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A New Online Project Rethinks How We Learn About Artists and Archive Their Life and Work
Now working at New York University, Glenn Wharton is responsible for the comprehensive David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base. Joan Jonas is next.