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Unearthing Austin's Overlooked Chicano Art History
A new exhibition at the Mexic-Arte Museum reveals the crucial but under-recognized role that the Chicano art movement played in Austin’s history and culture.
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“Do We Still Recognize Ourselves?”
In an age when everything is called into doubt, Squeak Carnwath’s concern with seeing carries a deep urgency.
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Reveling in the Ruins of the Past
In attempting to convey atrocities that confound language, artist Phyllida Barlow comes up against a paradox with no easy resolution.
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Artists Reflect on the Harms of Data Collection
For her first museum exhibition, Grace Rosario Perkins invited four other artists to ponder the definition of data, centering questions about how it's collected, authenticated, documented, and distributed — and by whom.
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Dana Lok Beckons the Unknowable
Lok's paintings reveal seemingly straightforward objects and events to be strange, slippery, and utterly beguiling.
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Powerful Visions of Reclaimed Narratives by Indigenous Artists
The artists in Mesh collectively delve into connections to land and to community, pushing back against colonizing forces, and reclaiming their own narratives and power.
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A Korean-American Artist's Search for His Family's Past
Young Sun Han's art explores sometimes painful, sometimes revelatory aspects of his family’s narrative and Korean history more generally.
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Suzanne Lacy’s Object Lessons on How to Get Things Done
Lacy investigates, questions, confronts, and ultimately pushes her audience in the right direction.
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Picturing the Pandemic Through the Lens of Buddhism
Mongolian artist Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu draws upon domestic objects and Buddhist symbolism to show a virtually hyperconnected but physically isolated existence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Otherworldly Beings Hidden in Quotidian Scenes of LA
Aryo Toh Djojo’s paintings capture the jarring moment of looking at a familiar photograph, only to notice something slightly amiss.
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“I'll Have What She’s Having” Chronicles the Life of the Jewish Deli
More than simply focusing on the food, the exhibition at the Los Angeles Skirball Center illustrates how the Jewish Deli was uniquely American, tied up with political and social trends of the day.
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In Praise of Illegibility
Nadia Haji Omar’s art asks us: Can we look for the sake of looking? Or must looking always be about gaining and extraction?