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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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Ted Mooney, Longtime “Art in America” Senior Editor and Acclaimed Novelist, Dies at 70
The author of Easy Travel to Other Planets and other fictions was a critical-writing mentor to many.
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Jacky Connolly’s Computer-Generated Doom
Recording scenes from video games, an artist and filmmaker evokes the dissociation and despair of our era for this year's Whitney Biennial.
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Hard Truths: Can Shady Art Dealers Escape Blockchain Armageddon?
An old-school gallerist worries that blockchain technology will force him to pay artists on time.
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New Mexico Fiber Artist Eric-Paul Riege Sees Life as a Loom
The artist works not only in fiber, but also installation, performance, collage, and digital media.
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