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An Artist Provides a Stage for Us to Make Political Decisions
Björn Meyer-Ebrecht’s objects provide a stage, and the viewer is the actor who must perform the uprising.
New York
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Has El Museo del Barrio Betrayed Its Mission?
There is a particular way to think about the conflict around El Museo del Barrio that hasn’t yet been broached by the art press: the shift in its priorities may be generational.
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Columbia University MFA Students Gamble on Uncertainty in Thesis Exhibition
The class of 2019 is presenting works that inspire curiosity and fear — palimpsests for a generation still trying to understand itself.
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Workers at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Move to Unionize
A BAM employee says the union for administrative workers and cinema staff has been in the works for a year and a half, after workers “noticed a lack of transparency and discrepancies in codes of standards of conduct that BAM was holding for itself.”
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Doreen Garner's Visceral, Bodily Sculptures Confront Racial Trauma
Garner confronts viewers with the unspeakable abuses perpetrated on the bodies — and subjectivities — of Black women.
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The Secret Paintings of a Hermetic Filmmaker
Jordan Belson wanted the viewer to see only what was in front of his or her face — to scrutinize his paintings from up close.
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Surfboards, Skateboards, and the Question of Art
What is the difference between a painting in a museum and a tattoo on an arm?
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A Universe of Mazes and Meta-Pictures
Laleh Khorramian fills two galleries with visions from a distant galaxy.
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After a Protest at the 2019 Whitney Biennial Opening, Activists March to Warren Kanders's Townhouse
One protestor promised, “If you take peace from the people, we take peace from you.”
Art
Lucian Freud’s Mountains of Flesh
Freud’s forlorn, isolated figures and grotty interiors resonate appallingly with the steep cultural and social decline fated by Brexit, if it ever takes effect.
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How the Curatorial Stereotyping of Chinese Art Essentializes the Work of Zheng Guogu
The juxtaposition of Guogu's concurrent solo shows is a call to substitute a more rigorous and nuanced critical focus for ready-made stereotypical tropes in understanding contemporary Chinese art.
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My First Time Attending the Last Address Tribute Walk for AIDS
The Visual AIDS’ Last Address Tribute Walk is a yearly walking tour that honors artists lost to AIDS-related causes, as well as sites of cultural and activist AIDS-related histories.