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Covering Up the Present in a Ghost Forest
Artist Serena Chang helps us see that in the act of remembering we’re often uncovering more than our own past.
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Brandon Sadler’s Along The Way: Transforming the Traditional Debuts in New York
This exhibition at Fu Qiumeng Fine Art offers a dynamic exploration of East Asian art traditions through assemblage, calligraphy, and ink painting.
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Re-evaluating the Guerrilla Girls for Today’s Politics
A mini-retrospective of the feminist collective raises the question: What can be learned from this work that applies to today, and is this an effective method of making change?
News
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Is Turning 100
The Harlem institution is marking the occasion with a yearlong series of events including a special exhibition and a block party.
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Etel Adnan Captured the Light of Many Suns
An artist and poet who traversed multiple cultures, Adnan’s creations are alive with both multiplicity and instability.
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Five NYC Shows to Start Your February
Make sure to check out shows by the Guerrilla Girls and Etel Adnan this week, along with a collection of imagined books and other great exhibitions.
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Not All Superheroes Wear Capes, Some Don Gorilla Masks
This one-room exhibition is a good reminder of how this anonymous group of artists changed how we saw the art world.
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Lubaina Himid Asks Who Gets a Seat at the Table
Those empowered to supervise large swaths of humanity too often dehumanize us, whether through the levers of state, financial, or political power.
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What Comes After the End?
John Divola asks us: What am I looking at? Is it real? Where does that distinction now lie, given the technology required to make a photograph now?
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Alexis Trice’s Pearls of Longing
In the New York painter’s lyrical scenes, the pearl serves as a metaphor for turning pain into treasure.
Book Review
An Exhibition of Non-Existent Books
It’s clear that this exhibition was put together by a bunch of absolute nerds — and that’s a compliment of the highest order.
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Judith Bernstein Warns Us: Never Again!
That Bernstein’s political art is still so relevant is chilling, but like the first time around, it remains a source of comfort that we have her to lead us through.