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The Contested History of American Labor
An exhibition shows that our beleaguered present is not apocalyptically singular but the continuation of one long, long fight.
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What if Peacemakers Shaped the Future?
Poetics of Power, grounded in feminist critique, imagines a world free from militarized, male-dominated spheres of power and opposed to all forms of exploitation.
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Linder’s Monstrous Pop Cultural Assemblages
The artist’s surgical photomontages offer insight into the gendered desire and commercialism at the heart of patriarchal capitalism.
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Otis College MFA Students Remake Los Angeles
Graduates display the breadth of LA’s institutional art ecosystem today, offering a range of approaches to making art this side of the Mississippi.
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Patty Chang Looks Into the Abyss
The artist meditates on motherhood, and more broadly, on empathy, connection, and violence across space, species, and time.
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Myrlande Constant Immerses Us in Opulence
Standing before Constant’s sumptuous embroideries, shimmering with beads and sequins, is awe-inspiring and joyfully disorienting.
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A Vision of Design That Transcends Empire’s Grid
Reverberations decenters anthropocentrism, builds upon non-Western cosmologies, and harnesses alternative knowledge-keeping.
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The Banality of the American Dream
Objects like beds, houses, and diamond rings, and the successful middle-class life they represent, are both desired and stultifying in Suellen Rocca’s art.
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California’s New Slang
From airbrushed lettering of lowriders to silkscreen and sign-painting, an exhibition flexes the state’s wide-ranging visual language.
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Artists’ Monuments to the Great Migration
Histories need to be unearthed, recorded, studied, intersected, sung, paraded, and learned, and two Chicago shows do that for the Great Migration.
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Was Rembrandt Inspired by the Story of Queen Esther?
A show argues that the Jewish tale was interpreted as a symbol of liberation from Spanish rule in 17th-century Dutch society.
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Amy Sherald’s Parables of Black American Life
Sherald knits historic, cinematic, and literary references into many of her artworks, embedding their legacies into the distinct visual world she’s created.