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Images of Truth from Christine Blasey Ford's Testimony and What They Mean
The images emerging from the Christine Blasey Ford hearing tell us a lot, but what?
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Contemporary Arab Cinema Series Looks Past Headlines to Realities of the Region
Opening Saturday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, ANA features a selection of movies reflecting the political and social realities of the Arab world, from Palestine to Tunisia.
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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.