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Deep explorations of Ray Johnson, Ridykeulous, Tony Smith, Steina, Ruth Asawa, graffiti as monument, the art of mourning, and more.
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Film as a Terrain of Feminist Struggle
Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image reminds us that feminist visions are abundant, and feminist critique is generative.
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The Complicated Legacy of Modernist Minoru Yamasaki, Architect of World Trade Center
Yamasaki’s most well-known projects — the twin towers and the Pruit-Igoe housing project — were both destroyed on national television.
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A History of Motherhood Through Design
Designing Motherhood includes over 100 objects spanning medical devices to depictions of laboring women in films.
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How Black Artists Are Shaping a Distinctly Black Gaze
Cultural and artistic icons are reshaping the circulation of Blackness on a global scale.
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The Stunning Scope of Carrie Mae Weems’s Vision
A new book offers a deep dive into Weems’s influential career.
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A Deep, Feminist Dive Into Autotheory
Lauren Fournier considers what it means, in the bell hooks sense, to bring everyday life to theory.
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Where Does a Work of Art Belong?
Like the international financial markets, the art museum is a controlling Western institution.
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Memoir as the Fragments of Memory
When Michel Leiris died in 1990 at age 89 he was a canonical figure in France, mainly for having remade the genre of memoir in his own image.
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Gabriel Orozco’s Journals Invite Readers to Retrace His Steps
What makes Written Matter different from some artists’ journals is that one need not be familiar with Orozco — or even the legacy of Conceptualism to which his work is tethered — to enjoy it.
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Ana Mendieta, a Feminist Pioneer, in a New Light
In Radical Virtuosity, Genevieve Hyacinthe brilliantly reframes Mendieta’s celebrated works, yet for a book so rooted in race, the final analysis feels only half-full.
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The Radical, Playful, and Primal Perspectives of Michael Snow
Edited by the late, great Anette Michelson and Kenneth White, the essays in Michael Snow refresh our notions of experimentation.