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From Friendship to Marriage, a 30-Year Dialogue Between Two Photographers
Slant Rhymes, a new collaborative book by the photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, amounts to a “long, elliptical, unfinished love poem.”
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After the Northern California Wildfires, an Artist Pieces Together a Life
A photographer lost her home and studio in the Atlas fire; now she is taking stock of the future and making work with remnants she salvaged from the ashes.
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Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait, a Conversation with Curator Deborah Wye
Wye provides an expert overview not only of Bourgeois's prints and artist’s books, but her work as a whole.
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Curator Nato Thompson on Politics and the State of Social Practice Art
The moderator of an upcoming conversation on art and dissent at the Hirshhorn Museum, Thompson talks about the changing art world.
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A Cinematographer’s Documentary About Making Documentaries
In Cameraperson, documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson turns the lens back on her own experiences working on films.
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Carolee Schneemann on Five Decades of Meat, Harnesses, and Innovation
In which Schneemann discusses rejecting academic language, reveling in flesh, how any respectable gallery needs a "token cunt," and, naturally, cats.
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Beer with a Painter: Tom Uttech
Uttech tells stories through the metaphoric possibilities of paint.
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Julie Mehretu Talks Music, Manifest Destiny, and Her Massive Mural for SFMOMA
Reflecting on “HOWL, eon (I, II),” her new commission for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Julie Mehretu talks about working at a huge scale, how live music affects her process, and how the 2016 election impacted her work.
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Why Patti Smith Writes
In her latest book, the iconic writer and musician examines belief, friendship, mentorship, and what drives her to make art.
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Reflecting on a Family Tragedy, an Artist Looks at Aleppo
An interview with artist Christine Gedeon about her current exhibition explores her personal history in Aleppo and a particularly painful family story.
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A Filmmaker Investigates the Racially Charged Murder His Great-Grandfather Committed
Travis Wilkerson speaks about his film Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?, which traces his great-grandfather's killing of an unarmed African-American man.
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RZA and Mustafa Shaikh on the Asian Art that Inspired Their Clothing Line
Last week, RZA and Mustafa Shaikh celebrated the fall line of their fashion label 36 Chambers at the Asian Art Museum, where they saw an exhibition that influenced their designs.