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2019's Best Documentaries Come Together for a Week in NYC
As the year winds down, the DOC NYC film festival curates some of the best and most buzzed-about recent nonfiction films.
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Announcement
University at Albany Offers Tuition Waivers and Funding for MFA Students
They offer an affordable and interdisciplinary program where students work across Painting and Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture and Installation, and Photography and Related Media. Applications are due by February 15, 2020.
Announcement
Hunter College Presents Part I of the Fall 2019 Thesis Exhibition
The eleven artists in the exhibition represent an array of art-making practices. Their work will be on view from November 14 - 30, 2019 at 205 Hudson Street.
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Two Artists Invite You to Bask in Their Garden
Garden is a sustained mind-meld between two artists’ aesthetic sensibilities, one clearly born from a long friendship grounded in loving, making, and sharing art over the course of 15 years.
Announcement
An Evening With Pia Camil at the Guggenheim on November 8
Pia Camil joins Pablo León de la Barra for a discussion of her practice, followed by a celebration that includes a communal activation of her new work Here Comes the Sun (2019).
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A Brutal, Historic Film About Decolonization
Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers is one of the great films in history to depict insurgent warfare, and New Yorkers can see it for free this week.
Announcement
Purchase College, SUNY Is Now Accepting Applications to Its Graduate Programs
Purchase College is a public liberal arts college and among the most respected art schools in the country — a hidden gem located within the greater New York City region.
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Incarcerated Artists, Seen Through the Lens of Their Creativity
While The Pencil Is a Key spans continents, training levels, and types of imprisonment, today’s constant headlines about mass incarceration and border detentions lend it a special timeliness.
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A Deliciously Transgressive and Strikingly Vulnerable Ode to Queer Sex Work
Declaring a pro-sex, pro-porn stance off the bat, On Our Backs presents diverse notions of intimacy, in sex work and the communal art and advocacy that spring from it.
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The Fearless Faces of a Feminist Firebrand
With her series of plastic surgeries, ORLAN wasn’t using her face simply in a performance, but as an art material.
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Answering the Colonizers of Modernism
The paintings of Kenyan artist Michael Armitage present a particularly resonant response to the expanded, repackaged, and redefined offerings at the reopened MoMA.
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TEFAF 2019, Safe and Champagne-filled With a Few Elements of Surprise
Amid the current state of US politics, the latest fall edition of the fair offered a selection of mostly apolitical artworks as soothing as a BBC documentary.