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A Historical Art of Dissent for the Digital Age
In Doomscrolling, Rob Swainston and Zorawar Sidhu assume the task Walter Benjamin set for the articulation of history — to “seize hold of the past as it flashes up at a moment of danger.”
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Saying Maybe to the Yes Men
As much as I appreciate the collective’s culture jamming initiatives, I don’t know that their putative premise ever bears meaningful fruit.
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The Forgotten Story of Modern Art's Great Jewish Collectors
Charles Dellheim's study tells the tale of a small group of Jewish art dealers and collectors who played a key role in the changing art world of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Time and Transformation in the Art of Toba Khedoori
Although Khedoori does not depict living beings, their presence is evoked in the traces they leave behind.
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Bronx Calling Recognizes Artists' Individuality but Neglects Art-World Gentrification
The Bronx Museum's fifth biennial continues to focus its programming on individual identity, eliding the ever-divergent interests of the art market and local communities.
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Artists Find Creative Ways to Raise Food Insecurity Awareness
While it may be strange to think of food insecurity as a basis for art, the works in Food Justice reveal barriers and injustices in food access.
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A Survey of Black American Portraiture Is a Revelation
Black American Portraits features over two centuries of artworks centering Black artists and subjects.
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An Artist Finds Inspiration in an Inherited Archive of African American Culture
A love of Black art and history was the bedrock of the friendship between Dell Marie Hamilton and Susan Denker, who had markedly different racial, economic, and generational subject positions.
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Tony Fitzpatrick's Last Museum Show
With what he says is his final museum bow, Fitzpatrick shines a light on the colorful diversity that composes his city.
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A Portrait of the Last Six Years of US Politics
Brink is not a fun book, and it shouldn’t be.
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Jiha Moon’s Artistic Breakthrough
It is precisely Moon's openness to using any source that makes her work flamboyant, captivating, odd, funny, smart, uncanny, comically monstrous, and unsettling. And, most of all, over the top.
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Exhilarating Dreamlands of the Unconscious at the Met Museum
Tensions between resistance to Surrealism as cultural imperialism and the embrace of it as a universalist vision of freedom unfettered run through the show.