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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.
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An Artist Photographs His Depression to Destigmatize Mental Illness
JOHANNESBURG — “Those are white people problems” is often the response to mental illness in black communities across the globe. South African photographer Tsoku Maela hopes to change that.
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Beer with a Painter: Ridley Howard
I fell in love with Ridley Howard’s painting when I saw his 2014 exhibition at Koenig & Clinton Gallery. The show, as a whole, created a world that one rarely sees in contemporary art: romantic, refined, delicate, and impeccably crafted.
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Christopher K. Ho on Confucianism, White Privilege, and Art Dads
In 2012, New York-based artist and curator Christopher K. Ho wrote the essay “The Clinton Crew: Privileged White Art,” describing the aesthetic sensibility and political shortcomings of Brooklyn-based artists who grew up in the United States during the 1990s.
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Reflecting on the Complicated and Painful History of Anti-LGBTQ Violence in the US
I'll never forget the day I wandered into Skylar Fein's "Remember the UpStairs Lounge" (2008) at the Prospect.1 biennial in New Orleans.
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"When You Tell Someone You’re an Artist that Is Native, They Tell You Who You Should Be"
Wife and husband duo Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan investigate the question of how to unmoor markers of identity from essentialized contexts while maintaining cultural heritage as a central part of one's art practice.
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"It's All Fear Circulating": Interpreting a Towering Artwork's Removal in Hong Kong
HONG KONG — A nine-and-a-half-minute video created a stir here when it opened on the giant LED façade of the International Commerce Centre tower.
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Beer with a Painter: Erika Ranee
I met Erika Ranee last summer when I took students to see a pop-up exhibition she curated in a Brooklyn studio, arranged around the theme of imagery of the eye.
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An Artist Brings a Gallery to His Hometown, the "Worst Place in the UK"
LONDON — Whether or not they have ever been to Luton, people who know of the place feel they need little introduction.
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The Virtual Is Liminal: An Interview with Claudia Hart
I first met Claudia Hart in 1995, when she was living in Berlin and I had gone there to do research for a project.
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A Community of Women Bound Together by Braids
During a recent chat on a Brooklyn park bench, artist Amy Cutler described her unexpected role as a confidant to strangers.