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Painting a Strangely Spiritual and Sexual Pleasure
Loie Hollowell’s current exhibition at 106 Green, an artist-run gallery in Greenpoint, offers up the results of many years of inquiry into female agency and sexual expression.
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Beer with a Painter: Angela Dufresne
Angela Dufresne had a couple of beers cracked open and ready when I arrived at her East Williamsburg studio. It was an old-school painting studio – which somehow surprised me, perhaps because Dufresne’s work is so dense with contemporary theory.
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An Artist Talks About the Trouble of Flying While Muslim in the US
Last week, Brooklyn-based artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed was on her way to a four-day trip in Istanbul, hoping to explore a metropolis known for its architectural marvels and history.
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Why Are There So Few Black Full Professors of Art History in the US?
Steven Nelson, professor of art history at UCLA, and Director of the African Studies Center, recently tweeted that he is a member of a rare and exceptional group: one of six full professors in art history, who are black, in the United States.
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Plastiglomerate, the Anthropocene’s New Stone
The new stone is a fusion, through fire, of molten plastic and natural materials.
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A Complex Portrait of Gentrification in New Yorkers' Own Words
Last month the Brooklyn Public Library bestowed its inaugural Brooklyn Eagle Literary Prize for a work of non-fiction on DW Gibson for The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification.
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"All Artists Are Theater Artists": Taylor Mac on the Connections Between Performance Art and Plays
Queerness revolts in the Podunk setting of Taylor Mac’s newest play, Hir, currently running at Playwrights Horizons.
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Artists Pick Artists: Mathew Hale
Mathew Hale has responded to the seven questions by making entirely new works as answers.
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Don’t Spook the Horse: Carroll Dunham on His New Work
The odd one out in Carroll Dunham’s current exhibition of paintings at Barbara Gladstone is “Culture as a Verb” (2013-2015). It’s the closest thing Dunham, or anyone in my recent memory, has come to painting the feeling of terrified, paranoid sorrow.
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Working Toward an "Artist Survival Guide" for People of Color
LOS ANGELES — Over the summer, a group of artists invited the public to talk critically and humorously about race, art, and survival in a context where they could not only vent frustrations but also share resources and build community as people of color.
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Reading Menstrual Rags Like Rorschach Tests
From popular culture to religious beliefs, menstruation has always been viewed as quite the taboo subject.
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Beer with a Painter: Lucy Mink Covello
Lucy Mink Covello lives in New Hampshire, not too far from where I spend a couple of weeks every summer. We met at my friends’ farm, spread a blanket under trees in the apple orchard, and shared some beer, bread, and cheese.