With Sámi Pavilion, Three Indigenous Artists Hope to Highlight the Ongoing Struggles of Their People at the Venice Biennale
For this year's Biennale, the Nordic Pavilion has been transformed into the Sámi Pavilion.
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The seventeenth-century "Lieutenant Nun" Catalina de Erauso remains an elusive figure whose life provides fodder for work reexamining histories of gender and power.
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England’s Tate Museum Network Declared a Climate Emergency. What Are the Benefits—and the Costs—of Sustainability?
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Vivian Suter’s Painting-Based Installations Register the Volatility of Nature
In the four decades since she moved to a remote village in Guatemala, Vivian Suter has exhibited only sporadically, though her vibrant abstract paintings have attracted increased attention in the…
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Is Valie Export’s 1980 Venice Biennale Installation Still Radical Today?
Austrian artist Valie Export is best known for provocative public performances that she described as a form of "expanded cinema," in which she used her body to challenge the coding of female social…
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Painter Michael Simpson Renders the Cruelties of Religion Using the Strictures of Minimalism
In his work, Michael Simpson, an avowed atheist, often alludes to the cruel hierarchies and injustices imposed by organized religion, framing religious institutions as sites of exclusion and…
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Deborah Roberts Renders the Complexity of Black Childhood in Collage
Roberts's work focuses almost exclusively on depictions of black youth: bold, graphic figures composed of gouache bodies pasted with faces and hands cut from photographs found in magazines or online…
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Derek Jarman
Most of the works in this poignant exhibition of assemblage-style paintings by Derek Jarman, "Shadow Is the Queen of Colour," comprised canvases on which objects such as crucifixes, a whip, and…
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Songs in the Garden: Performance at the 58th Venice Biennale
The performances lent the affair an experimental energy, often pushing ideas around gender, nationality, representation, and language further than works in other mediums on view in the Central…
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Jonathan Horowitz
Jonathan Horowitz, who was trained in philosophy, often uses witty juxtapositions of appropriated imagery to emphasize the mutual interdependence of politics, entertainment, and consumerism. The…
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