WORLD ART
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Andres Serrano’s Film About the Capitol Insurrection Tends Toward ‘Comedy and Tragedy’
Artist Andres Serrano , best known for his provocative photographs, has long had an interest in Donald Trump . He photographed Trump, at the...
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New York’s Kapp Kapp Gallery to Open Space in Peter Doig’s Former Studio
Next week, after just two and a half years in business, Kapp Kapp gallery will open a new space in Tribeca where artist Peter Doig once kept...
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Icons to Icons: John Chamberlain at Gagosian
If John Chamberlain hadn’t planted his flag and declared himself crushed car guy back in 1957, somebody else probably would have, and they’d...
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Forms of Memories: Rosemary Mayer at Swiss Institute
In 1988, at the age of forty-four, artist Rosemary Mayer wrote an article titled “Some of My Stories” for the feminist art and politics journal...
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Latinx Art Got More Visibility Than Ever in 2021. What Will Change Going Forward?
The end of 2021 also marks the end of the traveling retrospective for acclaimed lesbian Chicana photographer Laura Aguilar , who for decades...
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‘Sex and the City’ Prequel Gives Black Art a Prominent—and Cringe-Worthy—Starring Role
With its multitude of Manolo Blahnik shoes to its sprawling Upper East Side apartments, Sex and the City captivated viewers with its depictions...
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How I Made This: Bisa Butler’s Quilt Portraits Honor the Black Experience
Bisa Butler creates vibrant, life-size quilt portraits of Black Americans. The unique process by which she translates photographs into luminous,...
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Mushrooms as Metaphors
The earliest works of art were interspecies collaborations. Or, at least, this is what the controversial ethnobotanist Terence McKenna argues...
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Recruitment Firm Bridge Partners Has Spent Years Trying to Solve the Lack of Diversity in Museum Leadership
The lack of Black and Indigenous people and people of color in curatorial and leadership positions at major art institutions has been well...
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The Year in Artful Music (and Musicful Art): Sounds & Visions from 2021
In a year when the borders between art and everything else continued to grow ever more porous and open to potentiality, followers of art-adjacent...