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For Freedoms Stages Art Installations Around Democratic National Convention in Chicago

Six artist billboards will be installed near this year’s Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago with the hope of increasing civic engagement ahead of the national election in November. The featured artists on the billboards are Carrie Mae Weems, Christine Wong Yap, Ebony G. Patterson, Koyoltzinlti Miranda-Rivadeneira, Slow and Steady Wins the Race, and Jake […]

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Ted Larsen: A Painter’s Evolution to Minimalist Sculptor

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The Formative Years From the rural landscapes of South Haven, Michigan, to the artistic quarters of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ted Larsen‘s early life laid a foundational narrative of creativity and discovery. As a young boy, the artist was drawn to the shapes and forms of discarded tools and tractor parts scattered across his family

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Estevan Oriol's "Panama Prison" Project is an Allegory of Connection

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The Isthmus of Darién, the center of modern day Panama, is a geographical sliding door. What is vital about its location is obvious in the development of the Panama Canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as the connection of the North and South American continents within Central America. Three million years

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A Deeply Personal Investigation Into Canada’s Residential Schools

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During the 19th and 20th centuries, government programs in both the United States and Canada forcibly separated Indigenous children from their families, relocating them to residential boarding schools to “civilize” them. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has acknowledged this as a form of cultural genocide. In 2021, this awful history got a fresh

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A Major Survey of Black Collage Art Proves That Print Isn’t Dead

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The death knell has been rung for print media many times over in the past decades: thousands of local newspapers have shuttered, digital readership has shot up, and journalism has suffered a crisis. But if print really is dead, you wouldn’t know it from “Multiplicity: Blackness in American Collage,” a smart survey that features dozens

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Aron Barath: Whispers in Chroma

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Aron Barath: Unveiling the Chromatic Soul Born in 1980 in Novi Sad, then part of Yugoslavia, Aron Barath’s journey into the world of art began with a profound love for abstract expressions. Residing and creating in Budapest, Hungary, Barath’s art is a constant exploration of abstract painting, where he dives deep into the nuances of

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Ho Jae Kim's "Castaway" is Set in the Perfect Location

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Harper’s is pleased to announce Castaway, New York-based artist Ho Jae Kim’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Across his rigorous practice, painter Ho Jae Kim examines questions of liminality: the artist renders scenes of existential transition and disorientation, transcribing the wayward architectures of purgatory and other entrapped states. In Castaway, Kim continues to investigate the aesthetics and

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Brenda Goodman’s Unknowable Language of Grief

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Over the course of a seven-decade career, the one constant in Brenda Goodman’s practice has been drawing. The fluidity of her line parallels her thought process and openness to taking unexpected paths, often prompted by a memory or life event. In 2020, she told Clarity Haynes in a BOMB magazine interview that her work is

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Christopher Wool “See Stop Run” at 101 Greenwich St, New York

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In 2001, I curated an exhibition1 that connected Christopher Wool’s paintings to his photographs. The exhibition linked a series of silkscreen-only paintings with photographs of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, previously reproduced in the East Broadway Breakdown book,2 and a series of studio Polaroids he used to evaluate his in-progress paintings. Exhibiting them side by side

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Seventh Banksy Mural Spotted in London, British Museum Broke Law Says Internal Review, Nazi Artifacts Stolen, and More: Morning Links for August 12, 2024

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To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES POINTLESS PAINTINGS. A seventh animal painting by Banksy emerged in London over the weekend. This time the elusive street artist made a police box in the City of London look like a fish tank. Given the police’s reaction, though, it looks

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