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Exploring Fraught Histories at the Liverpool Biennial

by Aurella Yussuf June 23, 2021June 24, 2021

Particularly well incorporated into the city’s everyday, the biennial’s latest edition attempts to grapple with Liverpool’s colonial past.

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When You Can’t Go Home Again: Immigrants and Artists Reflect

by Nicole Miller January 11, 2020January 10, 2020

This exhibition at ICA/Boston presents works by 20 contemporary artists — many of them immigrants or members of the African diaspora — that highlight current migration events.

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Artists Reinterpret Classic Fairy Tales, from Rapunzel to Snow White

by Amy Funderburk October 22, 2018October 22, 2018

In Dread & Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World, 21 artists draw on age-old fantasy stories to explore contemporary social issues.

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An Exhibition that Frustrates Our Grasp of Abstraction

by Seph Rodney August 2, 2018August 3, 2018

Though Out of Easy Reach has a unifying theme, it presents a variety of tastes and approaches in a way that feels like ungainly curation which ultimately does not clarify how these women artists now steer the conversation about abstraction.

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When Artists Carry the Burden of History

by Monica Uszerowicz August 21, 2017August 23, 2017

No burden as heavy, on view at David Castillo Gallery, feels like a response to history’s weight: how heavily the past’s truths and fictions weigh, how often they (for better or worse) repeat themselves.

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Artists Embrace the Grayscale

by Sarah Rose Sharp July 20, 2017July 21, 2017

Gray Matters, featuring 37 artists working almost exclusively in shades of gray, is a dazzling exhibition.

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Marilyn Minter and Xaviera Simmons Talk Art, Sex, and Democracy

by Hrag Vartanian December 22, 2016April 19, 2022

“Sometimes I say I make pictures of things that don’t exist but everyone knows they’re there.”

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Art that Acknowledges Death Without Showing the Body

by Allison Meier December 28, 2015December 28, 2015

Every autumn in New York, leaves fall, grass turns brittle, and people are reminded of death.

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