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Roberto Lugo’s Colossal Ode to Puerto Rico Rises in Madison Square Park
Hand-painted portraits of Bad Bunny, his parents, and other inspiring figures mix with sweet memories of boyhood summers in the artist’s latest work.
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Artists Rethink the Tradition of Art as Resistance
At the Museum of Arts and Design, a group of artists come together to discuss the ways in which art can bring about social change.
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Ceramic Vases that Contain All the Beauty and Ugliness of US History
PHILADELPHIA — Of all the astonishing things Roberto Lugo has done in his career — from creating a DIY potter’s wheel and mixing his own clay from dirt in an urban scrapyard, to creating a new genre of hip-hop-inflected political porcelain — the most radical might be that he is head over heels in lo
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The Deep-Rooted Expression of Ceramics
DETROIT — One does not, perhaps, consider ceramic objects to be immediately gendered, possess sexuality, or be particularly political.