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How Medieval Manuscript Makers Experimented with Graphic Design
Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries considers how early English manuscripts approached graphic design.
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Pushing Back Against the Sensational Image of Chicago as "Chi-raq"
Amanda Williams, an architect turned artist, has shifted her practice from constructing buildings, to making work that understands and reveals the social implications of how and when they are destroyed.
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The Long 1960s, Seen Through NYPD Surveillance Photographs
The show offers rich historical materials, but little contextualization or insight into its relevance for our current political moment.
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A House in Baltimore Tells Stories Across Its Walls, Windows, Towels, and Sheets
Joseph Young's MicroFiction RowHouse consists of short texts and fragments of a fictional family's history playing out across the surfaces of the artist's home.
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Looking for America at Art Basel Miami Beach
If you know where to look, you will find heartbreakingly potent art at the fair this year.
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How Contemporary Artists Are Embracing the Ambiguities of Gender
What’s incredibly refreshing and exciting about Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon is that it’s a queer art show that specifically seeks a space beyond a taxonomic obsession.
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Monumental Domestic Scenes Address Race and History in Detroit
Jason Yates's interdisciplinary project deploys kitsch and abstraction to grapple with the social legacies and the lived present of Detroit.
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An Interactive Story Follows Two Migrants on Their Journeys to Europe
Migration Trail is a 10-day interactive story that unfolds in real time as it follows two migrants on their journey to Europe.
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Learning About Tactics of Resistance Through Southeast Asian Art
After Darkness reveals the multiple ways that artists from Southeast Asia have renegotiated painful histories.
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Aliza Nisenbaum’s Majestic Portraits of Communities
Nisenbaum portrays her subjects with majesty and importance, upending class and status structures.
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Tracing IKEA Chairs to Their Modernist Roots
The objects championed by Alfred Barr and Philip Johnson look strikingly like items that today are very much a part of our everyday lives — including IKEA furniture.
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So Many Narratives, So Little Time In Act II of the Sharjah Biennial
Act II the final component of the Sharjah Biennial Tamawuj has the feeling of a magnifying glass being held up to the wide-ranging dialogues chief curator Christine Tohmé seeks out with curators, artists, performers, writers, and researchers.