Art
Hot Flux Fosters Afro-Asian Solidarity
An exhibition hints at synchronicities between the contemporary concerns of a small island nation and a vast and diverse continent.
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Art
When Shakespeare Lured Soldiers to Battle
Beloved by kings and generals, Shakespeare’s lines have always found their way into powerful hands — and been employed to violent ends.
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The Agony and Ecstasy of Tanya Marcuse’s Labyrinths
The artist stitches together exposures to create disorienting, ecstatic murals inspired by an overgrown Garden of Eden.
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A Displaced Artist Finds Freedom in Flight
Petrit Halilaj works from memories of his time in a refugee camp during the Kosovo War, when the sight of birds and thought of migration gave him hope.
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The Dark Clouds Closing In on Mark Rothko
A retrospective exhibition in Paris holds so much beauty that visitors may miss how the artist, exhausted, painted himself into a corner.
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A Slice of Americana Told Through Tapestries
Mary Tooley Parker takes a folk art form that emerged in the mid-19th century and transforms it into a way of recounting life in the 1960s.
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Indigenous Watercolor Artists Render the Australian Landscape Anew
Watercolour Country gathers 100 paintings by the Hermannsburg School and its descendants, who continue to honor and grow the movement.
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Was John Singer Sargent an Insufferable Snob?
Sargent’s sitters were all rich enough to employ him — the nouveau riches or (less often) the aristocratic, though it hardly matters.
Books
A True and Exact History of Queer Indigenous Sovereignty
Miss Chief, artist Kent Monkman’s alter ego, narrates the story of Turtle Island not as a settler allegory but from the perspective of the land itself.
Art
Painting the History of India’s Anti-Caste Movement
Upending narrow framings, Vikrant Bhise renders the grassroots and captures the ongoing struggle to end casteism.
Art
Paintings That Capture the Full Force of Nature
There’s nothing still in Melinda Braathen’s still lifes, which are lush and alive, growing, pulsing, vibrating.
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50 Paintings Invites Viewers to Think Like an Artist
With its hands-off approach, the Milwaukee Art Museum's survey is a reprieve — an intimate place to wallow in mark-making.