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Discussing the Growing Tide of Labor Organizing in the Art World
A panel at Verso Books discusses recent union efforts by art handlers at Uovo Fine Art and the ongoing struggles of arts workers to organize their workplaces and industry.
New York
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The Many Blues of Matthew Wong
A rising art-world star, Wong planned his exhibition Blue before his suicide in October. The show reveals a marked tension between beauty and melancholy, making it difficult at times to keep his biography and work separate.
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Hans Haacke’s Sharp Metaphors and Maps of Power
Exposing systems of injustice and how they operate is Haacke’s great skill. At the New Museum, the artist draws the connections, and we follow along, wondering what our role is in this circuit.
Announcement
Apply to MFA, MA, and PhD Programs in the Department of Art at Stony Brook University
To be considered for the highest levels of funding and support, applications must be received by January 15, 2020.
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Meleko Mokgosi's Discursive Art
Mokgosi is as interested in the discourse around the figures in his paintings as in their representation — not that the two could ever exist separately.
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Painting on a Knife’s Edge
With ATOMIC, her new body of work, Patricia Satterlee pitches us into abstract apparitions of heaven and hell before pulling us back to earth.
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Philip Taaffe, Symbolist and Naturalist
Taaffe is able to bring the exterior, visible world as well as the interior imagined world into his paintings. To me, this is what distinguishes him from his contemporaries.
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Probing the Tensions Between the Universal and the Specific in Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls
Then and now, Shange’s work responds to an urgent fever pitch humming beneath the taut surface of pain and respectability. A dazzling revival at the Public Theater reminds us of its timelessness.
Announcement
apexart Announces Winners of Its Latest NYC Open Call for 2020-21
Four proposals were selected from 512 submissions, rated by over 400 jurors who cast over 14,000 votes. The winners will be presented as part of the organization’s 2020-21 Exhibition Season.
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The Illusive, Intimate Nature of Mary Corse's Paintings
One must spend time with Corse’s paintings, which evolve depending on whether the paint applied to the canvas is thick or thin, whether the work is in natural or artificial light, and whether you are close or far away from the painting itself.
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#BlackGirlMagic Takes Form In Vanessa German’s Sculptures
German’s commitment to dynamic and sometimes riotous formal strategies expresses an amalgamation of Black femme iconography, including shrines to Serena and Venus Williams with butterflies.
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Don't Cry Cause It's Over: A Program of Queer Experimental Shorts Reframes Loss
This Saturday, Anthology Film Archives presents Representations of Leaving: Queer Death and Heavens, a program of experimental shorts focused on experiences of loss, rebirth, and queer utopia.