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An Art of Totems and Exorcisms
"Simply put — the church became a dangerous place — I had to leave."
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ArtPrize Winner Anila Quayyum Agha Talks Sacred Spaces and Religion
Last Friday, Pakistani-American artist Anila Quayyum Agha won both the popular and juried vote at ArtPrize for her installation "Intersections." It was the first time in the history of the Grand Rapids-based competition that an artist reaped top honors in both categories.
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How Much Will Artists Be Paid Under the New W.A.G.E. Certification Program?
Last Friday, Working Artists and the Greater Economy (aka W.A.G.E.) announced that they will be rolling out their new W.A.G.E. Certification program, which promises to be a "paradigm-shifting model for the remuneration of artistic labor." We had some questions for the organization.
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The Radical Power of Classified Pop Music
Ever since Edward Snowden revealed the extent to which the NSA and others have encroached on our privacy, everyone from technologists, reporters, politicians, and voters have been engaging in an international debate around surveillance.
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Upstate and Down with Pioneering Media Art
That vast, often vague, less metropolitan expanse that New Yorkers usually call “Upstate” has been a major force in the evolution of contemporary media art.
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AA Bronson on Queer Collaborations, Shamanism, and Korean History
GWANGJU, South Korea — For the past several years, AA Bronson's work has drawn on the acute awareness of radical pedagogies and alternative economies that he developed as a member of the Canadian artists collective General Idea.
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Beer with a Painter: Todd Bienvenu
Todd Bienvenu’s studio is filled with stacks: art books on the floor, paintings leaning against the wall. Bienvenu’s work deals with omnivorous appetites – for company, pleasure, fun, music.
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An Artist Draws the Women of the War on Terror
Artist Sofia Niazi is a Londoner, born and raised. But in a post-9/11 world, Niazi has been troubled by how her city and her country have changed, by how people in her community are being treated.
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A Talk With Christopher Kardambikis, Artist's Book Enthusiast
Every great museum has at least a few vitrines dedicated to the remarkable object that is the artist's book.
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Images of Blindness in a Sighted World
Photographer Gaia Squarci's Broken Screen series poignantly examines the implications of the blind man’s sign, deconstructing what it means to be visually impaired in a sighted world.
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Artists Pick Artists: Tom Chamberlain
All paintings have their own speed — in execution and in what it takes to read them. Tom Chamberlain makes work that is durational in both its formation (or erasure) and in the time required to witness its self-disclosure.
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Meeting the Artists Along the US–Mexico Border
For the past six years, German photographer Stefan Falke has been traveling the 2,000-mile-long border between the US and Mexico, meeting local artists and taking their pictures.