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Hard Choices: Will You Survive Your First Solo Gallery Show?
Take a quiz to see if you will catch a big break—or be broken.
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Value and Its Sources: Slavery and the History of Art
Two recent volumes examine the intersecting histories of art and slavery.
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Hard Truths: Should a ‘Serious Painter’ Stoop to Make NFTs?
An artist selling at blue-chip prices wonders if messing with NFTs might sink his market.
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Bulging Codpieces & Multicolored Tights: Renaissance Men’s Fashion Today
An exhibition and a scholarly book explore the fluid parameters of masculinity over centuries.
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Hard Choices: Should You Go See the Venice Biennale?
Is travel worth the travails in these troubled times?
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In Plaster Reliefs, LaKela Brown Plays Archaeologist and Looks for Lineage
The Detroit-born artist makes impressions of cultural artifacts associated with Black femininity in pieces resembling cuneiform tablets.
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Backstory: Big Bang
Cornelia Parker reflects on collaborating with the British Army to create one of her best-known sculptural installations.
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Excavating Ancient Expressions of Gender
An exhibition of Pompeian frescoes provides a window into how ancient Roman painters understood and represented gender.
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Warhol’s Mao Turns Fifty
The enigmatic Mao images that Andy Warhol made in 1972 continue to shift significance and elude ideology.
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Hard Truths: Can a Time-Worn Artist Be Called ‘Emerging’ If It Helps With Grants?
An artist with years of experience wonders about gaming the system for aid.
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