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Four Artists Dismantle the Boundaries of “Immigrant”
Raul De Lara, Shanique Emelife, Sihan Guo, and Tahnee Lonsdale challenge conservatism through explorations of migration, spirituality, and interconnectedness.
Review
Book Review
Why Isn’t Slavery Depicted in Dutch Painting?
Netherlandish art is remarkably coy about the whole colonial endeavor. A new book seeks to uncover those connections.
Book Review
Why Isn’t Slavery Depicted in Dutch Painting?
Netherlandish art is remarkably coy about the whole colonial endeavor. A new book seeks to uncover those connections.
Art
A “Both Sides” Approach to Orientalism
An exhibition hints that Jean-Léon Gérôme and his contemporaries deserve a second look for the virtuosity of their photorealism. I don’t take the bait.
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A “Both Sides” Approach to Orientalism
An exhibition hints that Jean-Léon Gérôme and his contemporaries deserve a second look for the virtuosity of their photorealism. I don’t take the bait.
Art
Hunter Reynolds and Dean Sameshima’s Memorials to Queer Loss
A two-person, intergenerational display represents two drastically opposed approaches to queer history.
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Hunter Reynolds and Dean Sameshima’s Memorials to Queer Loss
A two-person, intergenerational display represents two drastically opposed approaches to queer history.
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Theaster Gates’s House Museum Gone Wild
When Clouds Roll Away is an immersive viewing experience dedicated to the Johnson Publishing Company that prioritizes imaginative reuse over context.
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The Never-Ending Cycle of Fear and Desire
Gary Simmons’s art suggests that rather than make progress our culture more often makes elaborate circles over and over again on the ice until the music stops.
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Mary Ann Peters’s Obscured Memorials to Buried Histories
More context could have resulted in greater connections between viewers and the tantalizing glimpses of profound and difficult human experiences in Peters’s art.
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Making Food Into an Art in Muslim-Majority Cultures
Focused on the SWANA region, "The Art of Dining" transforms meals into narrative experiences, showing how food connects people not only to their roots, but also to each another.
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Ai Weiwei Knocks Down the Building Blocks of Empire
His toy-brick masterpieces are tributes to anyone terrorized and brutalized by the world’s great powers and their proxies.