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"Being Born Black in America Is a Political Act": An Interview With Senga Nengudi

In advance of her first retrospective outside the US, avant-garde artist Senga Nengudi discusses her emergence onto an international stage after a long career.

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Black Feminist Literature at the NY Art Book Fair: An Interview with the Free Black Women's Library

Artist and librarian OlaRonke Akinmowo has collected over 1,000 books written by Black women to assemble the interactive biblio installation.

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At This Year’s São Paulo Biennial the Curator Prioritizes Feeling Over Discourse

Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro discusses the impact of rejecting overwrought political themes in a show that welcomes everyone to slow down and focus on their own experience of the art.

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Curators Debate the Pros and Cons of All-Women's Art Shows

In the wake of #MeToo, all-women's art shows have taken on new significance. But whether such shows are an effective strategy for achieving gender equity in the art world is still up for debate.

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How a Political Sociologist Fell into Photojournalism After a 1980 Trip to Iran

Following her initial trip, Randy Goodman returned to Iran multiple times, shifting her focus to the many women she encountered.

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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."