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Pope.L, Artist and Performer Who Crawled Across NYC, Dies at 68
His endurance-based works drew attention to overlooked nuances, from systemic inequities imposed on Black Americans to absurd social rituals.
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Pope.L Invites Us to “Enter The Mess” When Things Fall Apart
Whether through expansion or confusion, Pope.L plays with the instability of time and shows how tapping into this instability can unlock creative shifts in thinking.
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Pope.L Wants You to Crawl Across New York With Him
The renowned performance artist is seeking more than 100 volunteers to participate in his largest performance yet, "Conquest."
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The Politics of Adversity in Pope.L’s Flint Water Project
Flint Water Project politicizes the readymade, positing the bottles as symbols of gross negligence and misconduct on the part of city and state officials, and the dire consequences.
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Pope.L’s Conceptual Bottled Water Project Calls Attention to the Crisis in Flint
The famed social practice artist sells bottled water out of a Detroit gallery to highlight the continuing emergency.
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When Conceptual Art Makes You Acutely Aware of Your Body
Invisible Man, a group show at Martos Gallery curated by Ebony L. Haynes, gathers works by four artists that subtly call attention to embodied experience and the histories embedded in utilitarian objects.
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The Political Problems of the Contemporary “Flâneur”
An exhibition at the Barnes Foundation uses the theme of the contemporary flânuer to draw connections to its 19th-century collection, but the concept is deeply muddled.
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An Omnivorous Tour of the 2017 Whitney Biennial
See highlights from the 2017 Whitney Biennial, which opens to the public later this week.
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Black Identity Seen Through the Lens of Pulp Stories
In Black Pulp! at the International Print Center New York, artists and co-curators William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson connect the literary genre of pulp with one of its most powerful vehicles: the story of blackness in the United States.
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Clowns Never Get Caught
Political campaigns, like Jasper Johns’s painting, "Flag," are based on dreams.
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A Show of African American Artists Resonates in Racially Divided Detroit
DETROIT — Can an exhibition be informed by the place it visits?
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From Black Performance to Stuff on a Shelf, a Visit to Five Shows in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO — It's summer in the USA, and that means it's group-show season on both coasts.