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Illustrating a Police Sergeant's Interrogation of a Black Boy
A new collaborative comic illustrates a leaked transcript of a Minneapolis PD sergeant's 1996 interrogation of a 14-year-old black child.
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Beer with a Painter: Alex Katz
“It’s been my most productive summer ever,” Alex Katz declares. “The real work is here, though,” he tells me, unrolling pounce paper to show me his preparatory drawings. “I want to go even bigger,” he says.
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In a Postindustrial Ruin, Suzanne Lacy Inspires a Captive Audience to Chant and Eat Together
"For me to be really interested in a work of social practice, it has to have political implications that have meaning for that community."
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"We Saw This Coming": Anti-Trump Artist Duo Reflects on Election Results
David Gleeson and Mary Mihelic hoped they'd be able to retire their Trump campaign bus–turned–rolling anti-Trump art project after November 8. Now they can't.
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A Prankster-Turned-Painter Leaves Self-Sabotage Behind
"Art and entertainment are oil and water, which I know because I went through it," says Marc Horowitz.
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Lines of Thought: An Interview with Ben Jones
Last month, Ben Jones exhibited a new body of work at The Hole gallery on the Lower East Side. The gallery’s walls and floor are painted a bright, startling white; Jones’s artwork, usually drenched in hot hues, here consists only of graphite-colored oil-stick line drawings.
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The Most Important Question About Modern Art's Great Men: Hot or Not?
In her new book, Hot or Not: 20th-Century Male Artists, Jessica Campbell passes definitive judgment on sex appeal of canonical modernists.
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Beer with a Painter: Billy Al Bengston
“Practically everything I do takes ten years for people to get,” Billy Al Bengston says — perhaps a reason why several of his 1950s and ‘60s exhibitions have recently been re-staged.
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Personal Stories from Shakespeare and Company, Paris’s Beloved English-Language Bookstore
Sylvia Whitman, who now runs the shop, and Krista Halverson, who edited the book, discuss a new publication that tells an in-depth history of Shakespeare and Company.
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MacArthur Fellow Mary Reid Kelley on Dismantling Sexual Taboos with Humor
In Mary Reid Kelley’s videos, bawdy characters, performed by the artist, bewitch with complex wordplay.
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No Rest Cures for the Wicked: An Interview with Psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster
A psychoanalyst and cultural commentator, Jamieson Webster upends academic discourses on a daily basis.
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Somali American Artists Create a Space All Their Own
St. John’s Catholic Church was built in 1922 to serve the growing Irish immigrant parish that was founded in 1887 on the city’s east side.