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Shedding Light on Homelessness Through Artistic Ingenuity
The unhoused can teach a masterclass on survival — and that we are all just one stroke of bad luck away from the same fate.
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Do We Take Vibes for Granted?
A digital media exhibition shows vibration as physical sensation and affective experience.
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Transformation and Dreams in Dorothea Tanning's Later Work
As Tanning took up midcentury painterly abstraction, key philosophical themes from her earlier phantasmal narrative paintings undergo transformations and reiterations.
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Exploring the Politics of Masks Beyond COVID
Though masks are popularly conceived of as limiting expression, they allow their wearers to access a range of emotionality, of which the human face alone is incapable.
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A Century of the Artist's Studio Is a Peek Into the Artist's Mind
The studio is a place of self-mirroring, self-haunting, a space where the artist plays out the day-to-day reality of the fantasy of being an artist.
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An Artist's Palette Reflects Community and Adversity
Painter Jewel Ham's color choices critique a colorist interpretation of Blackness as being monolithic, lacking a multitude of colors therein.
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Jaclyn Wright’s Blaze Orange Uses Photography to Question the “American West”
An active shooting range prompts artwork about the environment.
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Four Chicago Galleries Explore the Art of Arranging
An ingenious arrangement can engender awareness of spatial relationships, provide a much-needed sense of order, or offer purely aesthetic mysteries.
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Shadow Play and the Art of Utako Shindo
Utako Shindo is interested in transitional passages and hinge experiences, or what she calls the “in-between spatiality.”
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An Artist's Multi-Species Mythology, Inspired by Her Cat
Set in a realm where humans are no longer sovereign, Candice Lin's elaborate installation foregrounds the lives and deaths of felines, critters, microbes, and demons in a practice of making kin.
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The Prescient Politics of a Seminal Conceptual Photographer
Nearly a decade after his death in 2013, Phel Steinmetz’s attention to the effects of capitalism on the environment can be recognized as both political and prescient.
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Betsy Kaufman Puts Pressure on Geometric Abstraction
Kaufman's sculptures can go from orderly to helter-skelter, making them seem like willful renegades from an industrial assembly line.