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The Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth Sackler on Mass Incarceration and the Role of Activist Art
At the Brooklyn Museum in June, Elizabeth Sackler read from James Baldwin's “An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis.”
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Fragmented Figures Channel the “Struggle of Being in a Body”
LOS ANGELES — Breasts, arms, legs, fingers, halved torsos, and a hairy mustache. These are some of the body parts represented in porcelain, paint, photography, and mixed media in Fragmented Gaze, curated by Loren Britton at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Los Angeles.
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Spectacular Geography and Studios in the Kitchen: Michelle Grabner on Curating the Portland Biennial
This year’s iteration of the Portland Biennial, organized by the Disjecta Contemporary Art Center and curated by artist Michelle Grabner, claims to be the most complete survey of contemporary art in Oregon ever.
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The Flower-Filled Photos of Hmong Women on Dating Sites
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — At the age of four, in 1986, Pao Houa Her sought refuge from Vietnam with her family in the US.
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Beer with a Painter: Charles Yuen
Charles Yuen’s home in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, is comfortably domestic and suburban in feeling, which somehow surprises me, after having seen his zany and sardonic paintings earlier in the year at Studio10 in Bushwick.
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An “Act of Love”: Knitted Portraits of Feminist Artists and Their Work
Kate Just, an American-born Australia-based artist, has long been committed to making feminist work that examines the human body experience.
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A Symbolic Wound Takes Shape in Norway to Remember the 2011 Massacre
It has been exactly five years since Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 people in Norway.
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A Life in Activism and Comics: An Interview with Joyce Brabner
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS — There's a good chance that if you think you know Joyce Brabner, you're picturing actress Hope Davis.
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Police, Protest, and the Matter of Black Lives: A Conversation on the Power of Photographs
The death of the photograph has been announced more than once.
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A Novel Written with the Skeptical Mind of an Art Critic
"After publishing the novel, I could not return to scholarly writing and the established formulas of criticism."
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Artists Pick Artists: Matt Saunders
Matt Saunders creates unique photographs that are fabricated from the marks of his own paintings.
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On Photographing Drag Queens in Their Wonderland
Growing up in London, photographer Magnus Hastings was an "all-singing, all-dancing child," as he puts it, who loved to wear his sister's clothes.