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Interview

DeviantArt Relaunches, Hoping to Foster Digital Creative Communities

"We are looking to help people build their own communities and then help them profit and thrive through those communities, to really activate careers in art."

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Why the Art and Design Details of Rashid Johnson’s Native Son Matter

The 2019 adaptation of Richard Wright’s classic novel, with production design by Akin McKenzie, feels like a complete aesthetic reimagining of Wright’s 20th-century source material.

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Revisiting Carolee Schneemann’s Candor and Intellect in a Previously Unpublished Interview

Schneemann died from breast cancer on March 5 at the age of 79, and the art world that once criticized her has lauded her a pioneer and influential feminist force to be reckoned with.

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Tschabalala Self’s Avatars of Black Womanhood

Tschabalala Self explores the iconography, interiority, and subject status of Black women in her multimedia portraits.

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Perspectives of a Syrian Artist Working in a War Zone

An interview with Khozema Alaaed, mapping how the psychological manifests in his painting.

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A Painter Helped Create a Website that Allows You to Buy Land and Preserve It

With Conserve.org people can conserve land acre by acre, with their full donation going to purchase affordable acreage.

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Speaking with a Theater Director Who Reconstructs Histories of Communities in Conflict

The Argentine theater director and filmmaker Lola Arias reflects on her practice of creating work that provides the space to reflect on social or philosophical problems.

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Alfredo Jaar on the Capacity of Culture

In a conversation we had in Cape Town, I attempted to better understand Jaar's deep belief in art's capacity to effect change amid political disorder.

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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders on His Toni Morrison Doc and What Bette Davis Taught Him About Photography

The first full-length documentary on the Nobel Prize-winning author offers a rich take by one of the only people she trusts to take her photograph.

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How the 1970s Marked a Turning Point for Women Directors in Hollywood

Following the feminist and civil rights movements, Hollywood gradually began employing women as movie directors, though they still faced institutionalized sexism.

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Beer with a Painter: Fred Tomaselli

“There is an outer world of violent chaos, and an inside world that is the paradise of being an artist.”

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Salvator Mundi’s Mysterious Journey to the Gulf [UPDATED]

The painting’s voyage, from the record-breaking Christie’s auction to the mysterious postponing of its unveiling, reflects deep regional ideological and geopolitical rifts — but the debate has hardly played out in the Arabic-language media.