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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Fifty years after Lucy Lippard mounted a landmark exhibition surveying work by women artists, the Aldrich mounts a sequel folding in contemporary artists.
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Beverly Buchanan's photographs and "legends" of the real or imagined lives of rural Southerners contextualize her celebrated shacks.
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Merging Fashion Photography and Installation Art, Tyler Mitchell Crafts a Vision of Freedom for Black Youth
A photographer reimagines black utopia, from his portrait of Beyoncé to celebratory images strung on a laundry line.
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Twenty Years On, Nikki S. Lee’s Shapeshifting Art Provokes Debates About Cultural Appropriation
Her quick ascent, fade into the background, and reemergence can be read against the art world's cyclical patterns of embracing and ignoring identity politics.
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Artist-Attorney Ragen Moss Treats Legal Language as a Sculptural Material
Los Angeles–based artist Ragen Moss creates sci-fi-ish sculptures in which biomorphic forms made of clear polyethylene contain organlike objects and hang from metal armatures, suggesting cocoons or…
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As an Artist and Organizer, Christopher Udemezue Connects Queer and Caribbean Communities
Christopher Udemezue describes a stark binary in perceptions of Caribbean culture, contrasting the pleasures of flavorful food and island music with the darkness of colonial violence and persistent…
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“Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall”
This show posits an expansive definition of feminist practice—one that demands allyship with the most historically marginalized groups.
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What tools can an artist use to make an audience slow down and pay attention to an image? The Jamaican-born, Brooklyn-based artist Paul Anthony Smith employs picotage in his photographic work…
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First Look: Ilana Harris-Babou
Ilana Harris-Babou says that her mother is among the worst cooks she knows, which might come as a surprise, since the artist creates videos and ceramics that spoof cooking shows.
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