The artists in this Stony Brook University exhibition defy many of the linguistic and cultural hierarchies that museums often perpetuate.
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Indigenous Resilience and Futurism in the Hamptons
In addition to predicting the coming of colonization, environmental destruction, and capitalism, Indigenous artists have also envisioned a world where these things never happened.
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‘You Should Feel Disturbed’ — Talking to the Directors of Attica
In the wake of the film’s nomination for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, Stanley Nelson and Traci Curry speak to Hyperallergic about the uprising’s ongoing relevance.
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Yashua Klos: OUR LABOUR Is Now Open at the Wellin Museum of Art
In his first solo museum show, Klos continues exploring the intersections between the human form, the natural world, and the built environment.
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Recently Discovered Forrest Bess Paintings
It is one thing to be a visionary and another to be one whose work holds your attention for a sustained period of time.
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The Unexpected Humor of Ellsworth Kelly
Kelly’s collaged postcards provide an awareness of both his sense of humor and his sense of place.
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The Fascinating Contradictions of Paul Thek
Thek rebelled against his early virtuosity, and chafed against the aspects of religion that rejected his gayness, while remaining a devout Catholic.
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Tomashi Jackson Rediscovers Long Island’s Beleaguered Past
Jackson’s exhibition The Land Claim began an extensive dialogue with local Indigenous, Black, and Latinx families on Long Island’s East End.
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Revisiting the Joy of Pattern and Decoration
The Pattern and Decoration movement was a hard-charging assault on traditions both ancient and oppressive. It was also an explosion of joyously liberated impulses.
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Brenda Goodman’s Abstraction and Pain
In her art, Goodman seems to both revisit trauma and heal it. The results are moving and painful.
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Lingering in the Crossroads Between the Human and the Divine
In her US debut, Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro charts the boundless potential of the spiritual in-between.
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Angela Dufresne Tells a Different Story
I cannot think of another narrative painter as expansive, surprising, funny, unsettling, tender, wacky, challenging, theatrical, and radically imaginative as Angela Dufresne.