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How Leigh Bowery Defined the Look of Gay Culture in 1980s London
Queer artist Leigh Bowery defined New Romanticism and the look of gay culture in 1980s London.
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Painting the Social Dimension of Turkey’s Civil War
For his debut exhibition, Nowhere, painter Sidar Baki foregrounds children within Gazi, an inner city neighborhood 20 kilometers from Istanbul’s core, where many Alawites live alongside internally displaced Anatolian youth.
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An Attempt to Translate Philosophy into Comics Fails Miserably
Unlike their earlier books illustrating philosophical ideas, this book lacks clarity.
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The Underground Gay Art of Early 20th-Century New York
The Young and the Evil at David Zwirner casts a light on lesser-known gay artists who rejected the prevailing trend toward abstraction.
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A Captivating Biography Chronicles the Important Life and Work of Judy Chicago
Levin conducted 250 interviews with Chicago and her friends, family, colleagues, admirers, and critics, and had access to Chicago’s diaries and letters.
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A Book Argues for Dada’s Russian Origins
Unlike its Western iteration, Dadaism in early twentieth century Russia was closely allied to political revolution.
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An Unsung Hero Who Has Been Decolonizing the Toronto Artworld Gets a Solo Show
Pamila Matharu's work connects to the anti-racist work of the Black and Indigenous People/Person(s) of Color (BIPOC) led Desh Pardesh movement of the 90s.
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A Classroom Where the Blue Lives Matter Movement Is the Central Curriculum
The syllabus for American Artist's imagined police academy includes such titles as The War on Cops and 365 Daily Devotions for Law Enforcement.
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Finding Intimacy in the Immensity of Infinity
In Intimate Immensity at PAFA, touch, materiality, the sensual, and the subversive are part of a feminist lineage.
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When Capri Was the Place to Be
Jamie James gives a full, intriguing, detailed history of the island's visitors and expats, a wild panoply of writers, artists, rogues, madmen and madwomen, and thieves.
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Paintings About Change, Not Perfection
Sanford Wurmfeld’s magic is partially the result of a mistake he made in 1985.
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Japan’s Radical Conceptual Art of the 1960s
An exhibition at Japan Society makes room in the modernist canon for the heady, playful ideas of free-thinking renegades.