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The Invisible Presence of Blackness in American Art
Don’t come to Unnamed Figures expecting to see pictures of Black people sitting comfortably alongside words like “empowerment” or “excellence.”
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Tracey Emin’s Portrait of Love After Death
What elevates Emin’s Lovers Grave above standard meditations on love and loss is the artist’s awareness of her own mortality.
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The Wandering Soul of Oklahoma Artists
The theme of Oklahoma as a source of inspiration for artists runs through the entirety of The Soul Is a Wanderer at Oklahoma Contemporary.
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Firelei Báez Paints Away the World’s Borders
The artist reminds us that maps advance the fiction that we could treat the earth as an object to be measured, cut up, and extracted from without consequences.
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The Resounding Talents of a Quiet Renaissance Master
Perhaps Pesellino lacked a certain ferocity of ambition — those who choose not to shout from the rooftops often fail to get heard.
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Tracing the Hand of Botticelli
Botticelli’s drawings bring us tantalizingly close to the artist, a man as clouded by intimations of darkness, and seeking some salve of beauty, as we are today.
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Kameelah Janan Rasheed Embraces the Unknowable
Her multidisciplinary practice takes text as a point of departure, stripping away layers of meaning until only the marks remain.
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The Life-Affirming Promise of Regenerative Design
From cow-dung lamps to mushroom-based, architecturally sound bricks, Life Cycles investigates how design materials can work in tandem with nature.
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How Can Artists Best Represent Neurodiversity?
Nico Vascellari's "Alessio" confronts us with our own humanity through this piece, which unapologetically shows alternate ways of being human.
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Can “Rubenesque” Be Feminist?
Rubens & Women argues that, far from objectifying his models, the artist depicted a nuanced female body.
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Can “Rubenesque” Be Feminist?
Rubens & Women argues that, far from objectifying his models, the artist depicted a nuanced female body.
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Engineering Joy as an Act of Resistance
At MASS MoCA, EJ Hill explores amusement parks and museums as historically charged sites.