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The American sculptor uses tree limbs, bird feathers, and frying pans to reveal the complexity of a transatlantic Black identity.
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In photos, installations, and performances the Paris-based Canadian artist offers ways to "work through" our postcolonial challenges.
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Just as the American textile industry began its inexorable decline, artists like Lenore Tawney, Sheila Hicks, and Claire Zeisler decided to eschew the machine for other possibilities.
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Diedrick Brackens Interweaves Black History, Myth, and Self-Portraiture
In a strange twist of fate, Diedrick Brackens's new weavings arrived in the world at about the same time as COVID-19, a disease that, like AIDS, disproportionately affects black Americans.
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Suzanne Jackson’s Ethereal Acrylic Hangings Connect Autobiography and Abstraction
Suzanne Jackson's exhibition at Ortuzar Projects was an autobiography in visual form.
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Brent Wadden’s Abstract Weavings Are Equal Parts Anni and Josef Albers
Anni and Josef Albers did not have children. If they had, the kids might have grown up to make work like Brent Wadden's. The Canadian artist uses Anni's medium, weaving, to create abstract…
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Reassessing Pattern & Decoration, the Last Art Movement of the Twentieth Century
In the 1970s and '80s, a bold group of American artists embraced vibrant color, ornament, and craft. Their promiscuity looks prescient today.
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In Lessons of the Hour, Isaac Julien Offers a Stirring Portrait of the Great Abolitionist Frederick Douglass
If there were justice in the United States, Frederick Douglass's face would be on the twenty-dollar bill, not Andrew Jackson's. Douglass's speeches would be as well known as the Gettysburg Address…
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The retrospective exhibition of the weaver Anni Albers that began at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, and then traveled to Tate Modern in London, has been greeted from all sides…
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