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Dozie Kanu Challenges Distinctions Between Black Vernacular Making and Fine Art
In his furniture-like sculptures, the artist merges American and African concepts of functional design.
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Trump Can’t Make Architecture Great Again Without an Infrastructure Plan
A week ago, the draft of a provocative new executive order was leaked to the media—a putative fatwa on modern design, proposing that all future federal buildings be constructed in "classical and…
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How Museums Are Making Artworks Accessible to Blind People Online
Describe what you see: it’s a somewhat straightforward request that has opened up complicated debates about access, labor, and description practices in the art world and beyond. In 2019, more than a hundred lawsuits were filed against New York galleries whose online images lacked alt tags.
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Dora Maar’s Surrealist Photography Eclipses Her Reputation as a Modernist Muse
Much more than Picasso's onetime companion, Dora Maar produced a diverse range of highly imaginative artworks over seven decades.
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Using PowerPoint, Artists Ask How Performative Presentations Shape Our Thinking
Recognizing the ubiquity and epistemic imperialism of the slide deck, many artists—including David Byrne, Tan Lin, Daniel Eatock, Timothy Evans, Michael Riedel, Linda Dong, Simon Denny, and Tony Cokes—have taken up the medium, adapting its modes of address to comment on contemporary managerialism, information labor, and media culture.
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Hard Truths: How to Be Gentle with an Artist’s Overinflated Ego
Good art reflects humanity at its best, but unfortunately being a good artist and a good human do not always go hand in hand.
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Three Museum Exhibitions about Migration Focus on Trauma but Obscure its Causes
Institutions find themselves torn between the radical vision of an open world and the temptation to flatter and reassure.
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Handmade Visuals in Video Games Can Signal a Different Kind of Play
Deprioritizing the game industry's demands for productivity in favor of purposeful self-discovery is what handmade game design is all about.
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Observing by Touch, Blind Artist Emilie L. Gossiaux Sculpts Tattoos and Dancing Dogs
A New York artist's tactile drawings and sculptures evoke intimacy among both humans and animals with a charming playfulness.
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Generative Geography: Postcommodity in Conversation
On January 17 at the San Francisco Institute of Art, Cristóbal MartÃnez of the collective Postcommodity spoke to A.i.A.'s Brian Droitcour about The Point of Final Collapse, a sound installation that…
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