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The Bookshop in Miami that Has Preserved Haitian Culture for Decades
The Haitian playwright and activist Jan Mapou founded Libreri Mapou in 1990, and it has since become a neighborhood staple.
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Artist's Phallus Murals Challenge Viewers "to Think Deeper, Longer, Wider, Harder"
Two of Carolina Falkholt's murals of giant phalluses have been painted over recently, but she sees them as catalysts for important and difficult conversations.
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A Photographer's Visual Record of Her Gentrifying Los Angeles Neighborhood
In 2017 Samanta Helou-Hernandez created an Instagram account paying tribute to Virgil Village, a vibrant, predominantly Latino community currently experiencing rapid gentrification.
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Mira Schor and Susan Bee Discuss the Many Meanings of Art Writing
With Martha Wilson acting as a moderator, Schor and Bee discuss how and why in the 1980s they developed M/E/A/N/I/N/G magazine as a forum for and by artists.
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Why the City of Los Angeles Hired a “Chief Design Officer”
"Los Angeles can be hard to read," said Christopher Hawthorne, a former LA Times architecture critic. "It doesn't quite fit the mold of what we think a city is."
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"I’m the Opposite of Donald Trump": Yinka Shonibare MBE on His New Public Sculpture in NYC
The British-Nigerian artist's Public Art Fund commission, located just a few blocks from Trump Tower, is a tall, billowing form featuring a riotous pattern inspired by Dutch wax fabrics.
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An Interview with Lynne Tillman
The novelist and critic discusses her new book of fiction -- Men and Apparitions.
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The Corniness and Complexity of Grant Wood
Steven Biel, who wrote a book about the ironic journey of "American Gothic," considers the Grant Wood retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Ahmed Mater’s Photographic “Prayer for Mecca” Documents a Changing City
"Mecca is in a constant cycle of construction and deconstruction — it’s as if change is the only constant."
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"I'm Disillusioned All the Time": William Klein on His Legendary Film Career
On the occasion of his retrospective at Quad Cinema, Klein talks about his movies, becoming a Parisian, and fascism in the US.
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Commemorating US-Mexico Collaboration on a Farm Where Guest Workers Toiled
Artist Adriana Corral will install a flag that depicts the Mexican golden eagle and the American bald eagle, claws connecting.
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Eileen Myles's Homage to a Dearly Departed Dog
Afterglow is written in part from the perspective of the poet's pit bull, Rosie.