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Dismantling Colonial Fantasies About Puerto Rico
In Shey Rivera Ríos’s new installation, the island “miracle” that’s marketed to mainland American consumers is simulated and détourned.
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Beer with a Painter: Paul Wackers
The cozy studio environment and the casual, gonzo aesthetic of the ceramic objects, not to mention Wackers’s personality, may bely how technically precise and complexly orchestrated his paintings are.
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Serious Play: An Interview with Sam Cornish
In Britain, specifically, there has been a tendency to link artistic production to a festive attitude that marked the 1960s as a whole, melding it with a broader cultural image of “Swinging London.”
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Unpacking the Relationship Between Images and Social Justice
In a recent course at the Brooklyn Public Library, professor Sarah E. Lewis asked: how have images both limited and liberated our definition of citizenship?
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“In Mexico, Time Is Not Money”: A Residency Pushes Artists to Confront Difference and Colonialism
Arquetopia, which has locations in Puebla, Oaxaca, and, soon, the Peruvian city of Cusco, encourages resident artists to ask tough questions about colonialism, exoticism, and ethics.
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On Combing a Museum’s Collection for Objects that Deal with Death
A member of the Propeller Group discusses using the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s collection as a backdrop for a film about funerary traditions.
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Charlie Ahearn on Documenting the Rise of Hip-Hop
Charlie Ahearn talks about his new work and memories of the beginnings of hip-hop ahead of his exhibition at P.P.O.W. Gallery and movie screening at Metrograph.
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Two Transgender Artists on the Importance of Queering Home
Rahne Alexander and Jaimes Mayhew's installation at the Baltimore Museum of Art invites viewers to connect their own domestic lives to those of LGBTQ people.
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Artist Collective Postcommodity on Recovering Knowledge and Making Border Metaphors
With work on view in three current exhibitions, the members of Postcommodity discuss their desire to "mediate complexity."
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Beer with a Painter: Peter Acheson
Acheson does not care about trading niceties or being ingratiating. He would rather propose and debate philosophical ideas.
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Artists Pick Artists: Mario Mentrup
In his works, which are all performative to varying degrees, Mentrup tests our psychological limits.
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“It Feels Sacrificial”: An Artist Repeatedly Imprints Her Body on Paper
Keltie Ferris discusses her exhibition M\A\R\C\H at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, for which she covered herself in oil and pigment and lay on top of large sheets of paper.