Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art both celebrates and critiques a game that has grown into a global mega-industry.
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Witches Take Over Westchester
Bowen’s multimedia art is an alchemical mix of the sensuous and arcane, and it is more than a little witchy.
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NY Governor’s Proposed Budget Slashes Pandemic-Era Arts Funds
The cuts to the New York State Council on the Arts budget are attributed to the expiration of pandemic relief programs, but advocates say arts organizations need more support.
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What Is Hospitality in an Era of Crises?
I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality goes well beyond the conventional meaning of “hospitality” as generosity and conviviality.
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History Is Not an Open Book
The 1969 exhibition 5 + 1, and now Revisiting 5 + 1, are reminders that the history of Black Art in the United States is diverse rather than monolithic.
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The Stirring Political Etchings of Nicolás De Jesús
The Mexican artist’s works reveal the radical possibilities of an indigenous sensibility charged with a keen awareness of politics and art history.
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New York State Bans Native American Mascots in Schools
Sports team names and logos in the US have long reinforced derogatory stereotypes of Native people.
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Guaranteed Income Program for Artists Kicks Off in NY
More than 22,000 artists applied for Creatives Rebuild New York’s initiative, the biggest in the country.
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Wangechi Mutu Is Urgently Optimistic About the Future
Mutu’s imposing sculptural characters magnify her decades-long collage practice as sites of cultural, psychological, and sociopolitical transformation.
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The Hidden Poetry of Everyday Life
More than 100 modest and intimately scaled artworks in Still Life and the Poetry of Place provide glimpses into interiors, both humble and opulent.
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The Painter Who Directed Her Resolute Gaze at Herself
The emphasis in Semmel’s retrospective Skin in the Game is on the various points of view she has taken on herself — and, briefly, on others too.
