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Titian Made Visual Poetry of Eroticism and Power
The Renaissance master's Poesie paintings meld myth, politics, and the history of violence.
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In Detroit, Artists Pursue Afrofuturist Visions of Justice and Afropessimist Strategies of Withdrawal
Entertainment Justice griots like Will See and Bryce Detroit organize communities through rap, while Pope.L's Michigan projects show how infrastructures of scarcity can be evaded.
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Hard Truths: An Art World Crisis Is No Time to Be Coy
Art world advice columnists on how artists and galleries can survive COVID-19.
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In Ollie Dook’s Animated Works, the Talking Animals Talk Back
The British artist's perception-warping CGI videos give voice to captive creatures and visual form to wild conspiracy theories. Â
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What Disabled Artists Can Teach Us About Remote Access, Now and Post-Pandemic
In a panel, Johanna Hedva, Yo-Yo Lin, and Kevin Gotkin discuss how disabled people have been advocating alternative ways of getting together since long before the pandemic.
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Skawennati Makes Space for Indigenous Representation and Sovereignty in the Virtual World of Second Life
AbTec Island is an online community space, where Second Life users can hang out and talk. But it's also a place where visions of Indigenous histories and futures coexist.
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Dread Scott’s Struggle to Reclaim Collective Memory
With last year's Slave Rebellion Reenactment, Dread Scott and John Akomfrah created a living monument to historic uprisings against racial injustice.
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The Sounds of Quarantine: How Experimental Musicians Are Overcoming Domestic Isolation
Sound art made and experienced at home captures the strange uncertainty of a time rife with restlessness, boredom, and bleak beauty.
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The Aesthetics of Apology: Why So Many Brands Are Getting it Wrong
Big companies seem to be hoping that if they make an apology pretty enough, we won't be able to see through it.
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Experiencing the Shock of the Old, Fiber Artists Rediscover Shows Like MoMA’s Pivotal 1969 “Wall Hangings”
Just as the American textile industry began its inexorable decline, artists like Lenore Tawney, Sheila Hicks, and Claire Zeisler decided to eschew the machine for other possibilities.
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