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The 15th Sharjah Biennial Does Better At Excavating The Past Than Pushing The Present
The biennial honors the legacy of curator Okwui Enwezor—which is both a blessing and a curse.
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A Group Show in England Connects Caribbean Carnival and European Merry-Making
The exhibition at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge showed work by three Caribbean-born British artists alongside historical treasures.
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Microbes and Mushrooms Take a Star Turn in Bio Art Show at MIT
The term “bio art” is often linked to works from the late 1990s and early 2000s that involved the manipulation of genetic code. One might recall Eduardo Kac’s fluorescent bunny or the…
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How Iconic Gallery Just Above Midtown Swapped Art History’s Lone Geniuses for Vibrant Community
A show at MoMA pays tribute to a bastion for Black artists starting in 1974.
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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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