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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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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
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