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Capturing Optimism in Photographs of Chinatowns Around the World
From Bangkok to New York City, Cindy Trinh's documentary photography series No Boundaries captures Asian and Asian-American experiences through food, labor, and culture.
Photo Essays
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“It’s a Gold Rush Town”: How Artists Survive in San Francisco
Hyperallergic talks to various artists in the Bay Area about how they've hung on through years of economic turmoil.
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The Family Keepsakes Saved From Genocide
A photograph series asks the Midwestern descendants of survivors of the Armenian Genocide to show the items that were saved from the events of 1915.
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The Most Downloaded Artworks From the Getty and Met Museum
Both the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have created online databases that bring thousands of artworks to screens across the globe. Here's what most folks download.
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Composites of a Constantly Changing Female Identity
Zohra Opoku's sensitive and nuanced consideration of female, cultural, and cross-cultural identities are highly personal and profoundly politically relevant.
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Wangechi Mutu Adorns the Met Museum's Façade With Images of African Queendom
For the first time in 117 years, the empty niches on the museum's exterior are occupied. Mutu's four bronze sculpture express resilience and wisdom.
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California Landscapes, Millenial Pink, and Lots of Painting at the Other Art Fair
Catering to “a new generation of art buyers,” most of the artwork at the Santa Monica fair sells for under $1,000.
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Using Art to Voice Opposition to the Arms Trade
Dozens of artists are showcasing at Art the Arms fair in London, a protest exhibition that runs concurrent to the notorious Defence and Security Equipment International.
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Inside the Dallas Museum of Art's Revamped European Collection
After a summer rehaul, the museum has reopened its European art galleries with rarely seen works from the museum's permanent collection, restored Old Master paintings and sculptures, and a collection of Impressionist and Modern masterworks.
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Tackling Gentrification and Other Injustices Through Landscape Painting
Eddie Arroyo decidedly updates the genre of American landscape painting, recording real-estate developments and gentrification and capturing the flux of contemporary urban landscapes.
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A Visit to Belgium’s Wondrous Art Nouveau Museum
Victor Horta, like many architects at the turn of the century, wanted to eliminate the distinction between major and minor arts by creating immersive environments.
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The Cultural Legacy of Animals in Japanese Art Over 17 Centuries
With more than 300 works drawn from 66 Japanese institutions and 30 American collections, this is likely one of the largest exhibitions of Japanese art that a generation of Americans will ever see.