A conversation with Richard Kraft about his artist book in which he created penalty flags for nearly 10,000 of Trump’s misdeeds.
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Cuban Musicians and Artists Collaborate on Viral, Political Music Video
The “Patria y Vida” video is spreading like wildfire in Cuba and Miami, a sign of widespread discontent on the island as well as unity among Cubans.
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Victor Burgin’s Unclassifiable Take on the Passages of Art and Life
The artist’s landmark experimental text, Between, now reissued, remains one of a kind more than three decades after its publication.
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Trump’s Last Act
The most incandescent of invectives now feel like simple statements of fact.
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Photostats Document Subjugation and Violence
The artist stretched constructs of authority and authorship to impel the viewer’s awareness and participation.
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Peter Saul, American Gadfly
Before he turned 30, it was clear that Saul had found his subject: an American society deeply rooted in consumerism, pervasive racism, and toxic masculinity.
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The Prophecies of Deborah Kass
What can we say about an image that understood Trump’s root persona early on, and froze it in time?
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Dissident Visions With a Dose of Play
Minerva Cuevas exposes the contradictions of the socioeconomic systems that rule our daily life in her first solo show in New York.
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Mo Kong Maps a Post-Climate Change Future
Kong’s background as a recent Chinese immigrant and, especially, a former investigative reporter help account for the exhibition’s methods and mood.
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Artist Drops 800-Pound Heroin Spoon Outside OxyContin Manufacturer’s Headquarters
Artist Domenic Esposito and gallerist Fernando Luis Alvarez delivered the giant sculpture to the doorstep of drugmaker Purdue Pharma.
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Provocative Art about Blood and Masks
Daniel Pešta’s paintings refute the conventions of classical beauty but their nightmarish imagery can be exquisite.
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Danh Vo’s Elegy for Democracy
Drawing on many genres and styles, Vo meditates on history, freedom, love, faith, and death.