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By folding psychic and scientific motifs into his latest work, Philip Smith has activated new potentials in his paintings.
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The artist duo's videos record human efforts to protect and understand avian species—while their sculptures speak to larger systems causing birds' decline.
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The Posadism Adventure: A History of the Bizarre Communist Movement that Embraced UFOs and Nuclear War
Despite the image of the Posadists as "brainwashed Bolsheviks or socialist Scientologists," they were sincere in their certainty that revolution was coming.
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Living in Exile, Cuban Painter Carlos Alfonzo Developed an Expressionist Style Rooted in Afro-Cuban Imagery
"Carlos Alfonzo: Witnessing Perpetuity" gathered major works from every phase of the artist's career, which was cut short by his death from AIDS-related complications in 1991, at age forty-one.
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Juan Roberto Diago’s Paintings Challenge the Myth of Racial Equality in Cuba
Juan Roberto Diago is part of a new Afro-Cuban cultural movement that seeks to center questions of race and the afterlives of slavery in Cuban discourse.
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“AfriCOBRA: Messages to the People”
Emerging out of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC)—a Chicago collective of writers, artists, activists, and others—AfriCOBRA was founded in 1968 by Jeff Donaldson, Jae Jarell…
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"Igloos" assembles thirty sculptures that Arte Povera stalwart Mario Merz produced between 1968 and the year he died, 2003.
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SITElines 2018
Hallucinatory uses of language are found throughout SITElines 2018—the final installment in SITE Santa Fe's trio of biennials focusing on art from the Americas.
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Atlas Miami: From the Margins
A few Miami artists have undertaken quiet but potent projects exploring—or perhaps even building—an archive of histories that have been disregarded or deliberately occluded.
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Atlas Miami: Place Markers
While Ugo Rondinone's flourescent multicolored stone stack reinforces Miami's bright-skyscraper ethos, works by Beverly Buchanan, Onajide Shabaka, and César Trasobares more thoughtfully represent the…
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