Art
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The Politics of Portraiture: The Prison Creative Arts Project
Twelve portraits by ten artists: Rafael DeJesus, Theodora Moss, Gilbert Poole, RoShuan Smith, Raymond Gray,…
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Outsider Artist, Outside Time
Who gets to be considered an outsider artist, or an artist at all? Alison Stine…
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The Cabinet of Ordinary Affairs: Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer and Cheryl Wassenaar
Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer and Cheryl Wassenaar take us into The Cabinet of Ordinary Affairs, an…
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If They Come For Us: Fatimah Asghar and Shyama Golden
Fatimah Asghar and Shyama Golden discuss how Shyama created cover art for Fatimah’s debut collection…
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Two Visual Essays: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
After Terrance Hayes completed American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, he found he…
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The Goodbye Door
Lesley Jenike encounters a painting with an intriguing title—The Goodbye Door by Joan Mitchell—at around…
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Somewhere on the Road to Nowhere: Double Negative
Merridawn Duckler takes us beyond “No” and “No” into Double Negative, Michael Heizer’s monumental piece…
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The Colossal: Iris van Herpen and Girls Write the Museum
“For me, each dress functions the way a poem does: ‘A poem should not mean…
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Four Paintings by Margarita Gokun
Four haunting and alluring paintings by Margarita Gokun, a writer, novelist, and painter, and an…
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Takuji Hamanaka
Talking with artist and printmaker Takuji Hamanaka about his hybrid woodcut and collage works: radical…
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Chrome Green
Nature is not betrayed by the artists included in Chrome Green at Chicago’s Heaven Gallery.
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Breaking the System: An Interview with Kristan Kennedy
Kristan Kennedy talks with us about making paintings that may be more at home draped…
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Exquisite Syntropy
“Honestly, I’m happy my duties end at unlocking doors and making sure nobody headbutts the…
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Narwhals, Salt and Fractals
Using photography as a point of departure, Christine Nguyen cuts, layers, draws, sprays and crystallizes,…