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Frank, Greek, and Gay: Modernist Painter Yannis Tsarouchis Is Finally Getting His Due
Dancing in Real Life makes a strong case for recognizing the Greek painter as a pioneer of queer art.
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Wangechi Mutu’s Sly and Imposing Takeover of a San Francisco Museum
Unlike Mutu’s Met commission, at the Legion of Honor, Mutu continues the reclamation processes into and throughout the museum.
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Joke’s On You: New Red Order Parodies Society’s Deepest Settler Desires
Rest assured settlers, in NRO’s Indigenous future, “there is a place for you.”
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Jafar Panahi, Laura Poitras, and Other Filmmakers Reflect on the Pandemic Year
The seven shorts of the anthology The Year of the Everlasting Storm are impressively varied, given the constraints under which they were made.
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A Photographer’s Intimate Tribute to SOPHIE, a Visionary Gone Too Soon
Initially conceived alongside the musician, Zoe Chait’s Noise memorializes the public and private lives of a figure whose tragic death earlier this year sent shockwaves through the music industry.
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An Exhibition Offers an Ode to the Nuances of Diasporic Identities
Collectively, the artists in Open Call present a series of equally localized and haptic meditations on what it takes to be present in an increasingly globalized world.
Posted inBooks
Art! Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are!
In Art Hiding in New York, you can explore the art all around a city that can’t seem to get enough of it.
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A Window Into the Workings of Small Presses
A Poetics of the Press illustrates how invaluable firsthand accounts are to historicize a moment and medium.
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The Second Act of Andrew Forge
After finding success in England, Forge walked away from everything he knew how to do and started over.
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A Feminist Take on Medieval Statuary
Funky and elegant by turn, Ann Agee’s ceramic Madonnas testify to an imagination run wild.
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Theaster Gates Finds Community in Labor
Gates joins ideas of labor, function, and property with aesthetic and art historical concerns.