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In a Riveting Film, Telepathic Revolutionaries and a Brooklyn Noise Band Avenge Racist Murders
We've seen countless images of violence against the oppressed, often in the name of raising awareness. Why are there so many fewer depictions of acts of vengeance and revenge and fighting back against the powerful?
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Hard Truths: Adjuncts of the World Unite
With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, seasoned creative consultants bring hard truths to our readers.
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(Re)making History: Two Recent Books Recast Southeast Asia’s Postcolonial Modernism
An emerging generation of art critics and scholars is recasting Southeast Asia's postcolonial modernism.
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Tai Shani’s Feminist Science Fiction Novel Draws on Spoken Word Performance
An experimental feminist science-fiction novel traces irrational configurations of bodies and times.
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Imran Perretta Counters the UK’s Hostility to Immigrants Through Collaborative Projects
While still searching for methods and aesthetics with which to undo embedded racism, Imran Perretta has more recently transitioned from sculpture to moving image, and this year was shortlisted for…
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In Mexico City, Feminist Action Takes the Form of Both Protest and Creative Community
Amid misogynistic violence, women artists and activists in Mexico City find comfort in mutual aid and creative collaboration.
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Late in his Career, Photographer Duane Michals Has Found a New Creative Outlet as a Filmmaker
Since he took his first photographs in the late '50s, Michals has made a delicate art of playfulness. He packs his works with juvenile pranks, dizzying optical illusions, and winking allusions.
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Bunny Rogers’s Performa Project Mourns the Daily Tragedies of Mass Shooting
Limp bodies lined the hallways of Essex Street Academy, a public high school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, during Bunny Rogers's Sanctuary. It was the first live performance by the artist, who…
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A History of the MIT Media Lab Shows Why the Recent Epstein Scandal Is No Surprise
"Deploy or Die!" was Joi Ito's famous slogan for the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Go to war—meaning, in this case, find a practical (and profitable) application for your…
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Art in America Since 1913: A Timeline from Renaissance Art History to Indigenous Futurism
Over the past century, Art in America has developed from a small specialized journal to a major voice in the rapidly changing contemporary art world.
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