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Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Mierle Laderman Ukeles

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Refuse Transformed: Reuse as Social Repair

Avatar photo by Louis Bury August 18, 2018August 20, 2018

These assemblages showcase art’s power and, poignantly its limitations, to effect material transformations.

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Why an Apache Artist’s Photos Are Inextricable from His Activism

by Erin Turner February 16, 2017February 16, 2017

Standing Fox, a leader of the Apache Stronghold movement, talks about how activism plays an important part in his life as an Apache artist.

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How Mierle Laderman Ukeles Turned Maintenance Work into Art

by Jillian Steinhauer February 10, 2017February 9, 2017

Best known as the artist in residence at New York City’s Department of Sanitation, the septuagenarian Ukeles is having her first full retrospective, at the Queens Museum.

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Best of 2016: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows

Avatar photo by Hyperallergic December 27, 2016December 30, 2016

This list barely scratches the surface of the city’s artistic offerings this year, from overdue retrospectives to surprising sides of artists we know well.

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Getting the Dirt: New Perspectives on Trash in New York City

by Emma Wiseman August 24, 2015August 24, 2015

Written nearly a decade before she was appointed artist-in-residence at the New York Department of Sanitation in 1976, Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s “Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!” points at a basic disconnect between concept and reality.

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