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Wayne Thiebaud’s Confections, Sprinkled with Touches of Cézanne, Degas, and Others
An exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum lends a few helpful insights into who and what have inspired this 97-year-old artist (beyond the sugary obvious).
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An Afro-Surrealist Project Deifies God-Like Bodies of Color
Damon Davis plumbs the depths of Black history, fantasy, and mythology to create a vision of power and resilience in his St. Louis exhibition.
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Reinstalling a Transcendent TV Artwork by Nam June Paik Decades Later
The master of media art created works that are constructed out of TV sets and recording devices that are no longer manufactured and, needless to say, generally irreplaceable.
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An Art School Started by Marc Chagall that Became a Modernist Wasteland
The Centre Pompidou examines the thrilling but lesser-known story of the People’s Art School, founded in 1918 by the painter Marc Chagall in his hometown of Vitebsk.
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Glimpses of Aleppo in an Exile’s Vision of an Elegant, Eerie Realm
The mysterious promise of the old gates of Aleppo’s old town and its patchwork of faiths are woven through Kevork Mourad’s pictures of "in-between spaces."
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Childbirth and Menstruation in Defiant Art by Latin American Women
It is interesting that so many works in the Brooklyn Museum show Radical Women refer to the one form of power that men cannot dominate.
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"The High Multicultural Court of Wisdom" and Other Utopias by Bodys Isek Kingelez
City Dreams at the Museum of Modern Art explores how Congolese artist Bodys Isek Kingelez envisioned a future utopia through sculptures of imagined cities.
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A Sordid Story of FBI Oppression Told Through Spray Paint, Glitter, and Toys
This exhibition demonstrates Sadie Barnette’s genuine belief in the possibility of taking one’s time to look through one’s past, diligently, to find a political orientation that does not resent this past, or skip over it, but goes through it.
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Digitally Explore Thousands of Artifacts Excavated from an Amsterdam Canal
From shipwreck artifacts to everyday trash, Below the Surface is a digital archive for centuries of human detritus, all exhumed from an Amsterdam canal.
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LA Artists and Nightlife Personalities Make Garments that Sparkle with Ingenuity
Rafa Esparza and other local artists have been making garments at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and recently showcased them in a parade in the city's fashion district.
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Paintings that Ponder Death and Teem with Life
The Cuban artist Carlos Alfonzo had always contemplated the complexities of life and its end, even before he was diagnosed with AIDS in 1990.
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A Painter Illustrates the Charm and Tragedy of the American Dream
Esther Pearl Watson's personal paintings depict the life and adventures of a family rich in dreams but perpetually strapped for cash.