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A Village’s Living Artwork Goes On Display at The Met
The Ceremonial House Ceiling, made by Kwoma artists of Papua New Guinea, has returned to view in the museum’s renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
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Guide
Four New York City Shows to See Right Now
Lotus L. Kang, Rashid Johnson, and group exhibitions on home-making and Black style offer insight into how we forge ourselves from history.
Art Review
The Smithsonian Design Triennial Reinvents Home
Twenty-five installations explore home and all its attendant meanings, realities, and emotions, taking visitors on a meander through the minds of artists and designers.
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Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity
The first US retrospective of Shahn's work in nearly 50 years, highlighting the social realist artist and activist's enduring relevance, is on view at the Jewish Museum through October 12.
Art Review
The Self-Fashioning of the Black Dandy
The Met’s exhibition expands Black fashion history by centering ordinary individuals and their dress practices.
Features
An Archive of Lesbian History Right in the Heart of Brooklyn
Nestled between brownstones near Prospect Park, the Lesbian Herstory Archives houses the world’s largest selection of materials by and for anyone who identifies with the word.
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NYC Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander Unveils Arts Platform
The city comptroller’s eight-page culture plan includes a program for doctors to “prescribe” art and the creation of a deputy mayor position for the sector.
Art Review
How to Get a Read on Rashid Johnson
There is much reading going on in A Poem for Deep Thinkers at the Guggenheim, but I wonder where the apprehended knowledge shows up.
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Wen-Jen Deng: The Embedded Stitch
Contemporary Fiber Art from Taiwan
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“Mother Pigeon,” the Artist Fighting to Save NYC’s Urban Birds
Tina Piña Trachtenburg is set on finding the culprits behind a recent surge in pigeon disappearances throughout the city.
Art Review
Lotus L. Kang’s Hopeful Doom Scrolling
The artist challenges the expectation that continual creation and a predetermined morbid fate are contradictory.
Guide
New York City Shows to See Right Now
Repurposed objects by Kiah Celeste and Yuji Agematsu and re-imagined architecture by feminist architect Phyllis Birkby are among our favorite artworks this week.