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Hernan Bas on Painting Aristocratic, Queer Life in 1920s London
Aloof, gay waifs appear as persistently in Hernan Bas’s paintings as saints in a cathedral.
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Barkley L. Hendricks on "the Fucked-Up-Ness of American Culture"
Barkley L. Hendricks is well known for creating life-size oil paintings of mostly black American subjects from northeastern cities, but his practice involves much more than that.
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Liberate Tate Activists Look Back on Six Years of Fighting BP Sponsorship
Last month, BP announced that it will end its 26-year-long sponsorship of Tate.
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Looking Back at Toronto's Radical 1980s Underground Art Scene
TORONTO — The Rebel Zone provides insight into a scene that set the stage for a whole generation of artists, ultimately leading to one of the city’s earliest examples of gentrification.
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Berlinde De Bruyckere's Beloved Corpses
Berlinde De Bruyckere’s work is often unsettling.
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Jonas Mekas on the Poetry of Filmmaking and Living
"All of my past is in me. And whatever I do is determined and tinted by it. But there are also things in me that were inherited or given to me by angels, which are completely out of my control."
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Beer with a Painter: Sam Gilliam
“I’m just getting started,” Sam Gilliam says with a playful smile as he watches me take in his Washington, D.C. studio.
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Trump l’oeil: A Conversation with the Donald’s Portrait Painter
Donald Trump doesn’t like to appear sketchy.
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Chinese Casino Workers and the New American Suburbs
Currently on view at the Museum of Chinese in America, SubUrbanisms: Casino Urbanization, Chinatowns, and the Contested American Landscape, is a fascinating look at the evolution of the American suburbs beyond the archetype of the Anglo-Saxon, nuclear, single family and binary notions of home.
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Zoe Beloff's Infernal Dream: Interview with Curator Kaegan Sparks
Kaegan Sparks is the curator of the exhibition The Infernal Dream of Mutt and Jeff by artist Zoe Beloff at Momenta Art, on view through March 20th with a special event on Friday, March 18th, at 7pm with Amy Herzog and the artist.
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With Lace and Concrete, an Israeli Artist Reframes Abandoned Palestinian Homes
Naomi Safran-Hon has — by her own admission — terrible taste in music, which explains how she became a regular listener of Israel’s trashiest radio station, Galgalatz.
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A Museum for Our Postnatural Age
The Center for PostNatural History’s mission is to collect, document, and study living organisms that have been intentionally altered by people.