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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.
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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.