Art
"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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Art
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.
Art
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.
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Encountering Christo’s Massive Sculpture on the Serpentine Lake
Christo's giant floating sculpture, "The London Mastaba," sits on the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park as tourists on paddle boats circle around.
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How Our Conversations Around Mixed-Race Identity Have Evolved in the 21st Century
A project illustrates how the explosion of the internet has allowed for a more involved, varied, and purposeful construction of one's identity.
Music
A Talking Heads Album, Forty Years Later
More Songs About Buildings and Food, a concept album about late capitalism, speaks with disarming directness to the current political moment.
Books
Sweet, Gritty, Impossible Naples
The other great centers of the Italian art world – Florence, Rome, and Venice – have modernized; Naples mostly has not.
Books
Cuba at the Cusp
The images that foreshadow the turmoil of the Cuban Revolution jar you back to the precariousness of our times.
Art
Revisiting the Legacy of Women at Black Mountain College
The school's loosely structured pedagogical model allowed women to play vital roles throughout Black Mountain's brief history.