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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.
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The Possibilities and Failures of the Racial Imagination
Three writers consider the controversy surrounding Dana Schutz’s painting of Emmett Till and the Whitney Museum’s public response to it.
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Not Settled: An Interview with Adam Zagajewski
Zagajewski consistently writes with lightness, wit, and a dry sense of irony that never shades into cynicism or self-satisfaction.
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Going Crazy in New York and San Francisco: An Interview with Poet Julien Poirier
Reading these and the other poems that make up Out of Print what struck me was less the ostensive morbidity of Poirier’s images than the searing honesty underlying them.