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Fiber Is the New Painting: A Younger Generation of Artists Is Weaving and Sewing Personal Histories
On gallery walls, tapestries are replacing canvases as young artists disregard distinctions between fine art and folk art.
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PJ Harper Turned His Early Fascination with Dolls into Sculptures That Celebrate Blackness
The mixed-race Scottish artist conjures Black women cast as flawless glamazons.
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Mohammed Sami, a Former Propaganda Painter, Creates Haunting Interiors That Hover Between Abstraction and Figuration
Mohammed Sami has become known for his quietly haunting paintings of domestic interiors and roiling landscapes.
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Georgia O’Keeffe Made These Works After Going Blind
I wish they were in her current MoMA show, "To See Takes Time."
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The Once-Reviled Goddess Movement Gets a Second Chance
As scholars revisit early matriarchal cultures, artists are rediscovering the Goddess movement.
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Raul de Lara’s Rustic “Soft Sculptures” Act as Portraits of Invisible Laborers
Raul de Lara's so-called "tired tools" anthropomorphically evoke exhausted workers.
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The Centre Pompidou’s Landmark Agreement with Saudi Arabia Is More Complicated Than It Seems
So are the politics of art in the isolated country.
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Wang Xu’s Carved Animal Sculptures Have a Welcoming Aura of Cuteness Mixed with Kindness
The animals in Wang Xu’s compact, pastel-colored soapstone sculptures engage in a behavior rarely seen in contemporary art: kindness. In one, tiny birds line up and wait their turn to…
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From the Archives: Experimental Filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek on the Computer’s Emergence as a Creative Tool
When Art in America asked Stan VanDerBeek to nominate a new talent for the January-February issue of the magazine, he interpreted the prompt loosely and wrote an essay on “The Computer.” …
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Artists Are Suing Artificial Intelligence Companies and the Lawsuit Could Upend Legal Precedents Around Art
"AI art seemed like something far down the line," Sam Yang said, "and then it wasn't."
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