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Fred Lonidier’s Drily Humorous Works Channel Political Power through Conceptual Art
At Michael Benevento, Lonidier's photo-text works document labor struggles and art talks alike using a dry anti-aesthetic.
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Max Guy Built a Yellow Brick Road from Chicago to the Land of Oz
Inspired by the Wizard of Oz, Guy's show is a prism of pop cultural, art historical, geographical, and political references.
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In Abstract, Haunting, and Poignant Works, Artists Reflect on the Great Migration in a Major Exhibition
"A Movement in Every Direction" at the Baltimore Museum of Art presented 12 artists considering how Black families, including their own, navigated an era's geographic and sociopolitical shifts.
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Adrian Burrell Explores the Difficulty—and the Promise—of Escaping Black American History
In sculpture, texts, and film, the artist focuses on his own ancestors' struggles in the American South.
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Who Gets to Be Abstract? A Legendary Show of Black Artists Gets a Second Look in “Revisiting 5+1”
Updating a historic show curated by Frank Bowling, "Revisiting 5+1" unites Black artists who resisted expectations that their work be legibly political.
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In Stylish Photographs, Alberto García-Alix Captured Spain’s Outcasts and Lesser-Known Youth Rebellion
García-Alix was part of La Movida Madrileña, a youth movement of the 1970s and '80s, whose participants and influences are evident in his photographs.
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Blind Spot: Sophie Calle at the Art Institute of Chicago
The French conceptualist's 1986 project about blindness doesn't hold up well in today's disability culture, and its pairing with a new series only brings out the self-amplifying qualities of both.
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Untamed, Shifting Landscapes: Brett Goodroad at Greene Naftali
Linger a moment and Goodroad's frequently murky pictures dissolve into tracts of color, patches of texture, fields of forms, evocations of feelings.
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One Work: Elaine Cameron-Weir’s “Dressing for Windows/Dressing for Altitude/Dressing for Pleasure”
A trio of symbolic objects suggests a larger system of operations or meanings.
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Fantasy’s Limitations: Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg at Tanya Bonakdar
Forest creatures and anthropomorphized eggs populate this exhibition but struggle to cohere into an immersive environment or challenge expected narratives.
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