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The Chinese Exclusion Act and the “Bone Boxes” that Carried Immigrants Home
In Requiem, Summer Mei-Ling Lee remembers the hospital that shipped thousands of boxes full of bones from the US to China.
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Quiet Company and a Crackling Fire in an Artist-Made Yule Log Video
Artist Lauren LoGuidice shares why she felt inspired to create her 2.5-hour long video "Yule Log With Friends."
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On Neuroaesthetics, or the Productive Exercise of Looking at Art
Researcher and art historian Jonathan Fineberg discusses the evolutionary and neurological benefits of looking at art.
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“You Can’t Say It Doesn’t Exist”: A Curator on the Art of Latin American Women from 1960 to '85
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, a curator of the Radical Women exhibition at the Hammer Museum, talks about this largely ignored history.
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A Photographer Recreates Maritime Scenes from the World Wars
Thomas Bangsted shares how he reconstructs moments from the past with present-day photography.
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Collectors of Color on the Importance of Supporting Under-Recognized Artists
In Los Angeles, a group of forward-thinking collectors is focused on building and championing diversity through the work they select.
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Beer with a Painter: Steve Mumford and Inka Essenhigh
Essenhigh and Mumford — who live together and work in adjoining studios on the Lower East Side — are unafraid to make declarations about what motivates the other.
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Artists Pick Artists: Stewart Home
In the 17th and final conversation of a series on interviews with artists, Stewart Home discusses making art about art and practicing headstands to attain altered states of consciousness.
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6 Questions for an Art Historian About Leonardo's "Salvator Mundi"
David Nolta doesn't mince words in his assessment of "Salvator Mundi." "The sale does not necessarily have any more to do with scholarship than the picture has to do with Leonardo," he explains.
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Dread Scott Reenacts a Slave Revolt to Radically Reconsider Freedom
Scott's project reenacts the 1811 German Coast Uprising, the largest slave revolt in North American history.
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For Gerald Williams, a Co-Founder of AfriCOBRA, Transnational Black Aesthetics Are as Relevant as Ever
Gerald Williams has lived in seven countries and five different states within the US, but his artistic roots are here on Chicago’s south side, the birthplace of AfriCOBRA, of which he was a member.
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Anti-Gentrification Activists Protest Laura Owens Exhibition at the Whitney Museum
An alliance of activists from Los Angeles and New York highlighted the role of the artist and her dealer, Gavin Brown, in artwashing the gentrification of working-class neighborhoods.