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Apply for Rent-Free Studio Space in Brooklyn Through the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program 

Apply for Rent-Free Studio Space in Brooklyn Through the...

Seventeen visual artists will receive a year of rent-free studio space in New York...

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Best New York City Art Shows of 2024

Best New York City Art Shows of 2024

Our staff and contributors look back on the city’s year in art, from blockbusters...

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Five Video Essays for the Holiday Season

Five Video Essays for the Holiday Season

Killer bananas, Grand Theft Auto telephone poles, online gambling, and other ways...

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How Did the Korean Feminist Movement Influence Art?

How Did the Korean Feminist Movement Influence Art?

A new book spans artists from the 1970s through today around 15 themes, including...

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Nativity Scenes Have Never Been Neutral

Nativity Scenes Have Never Been Neutral

To criticize the Vatican’s nativity with a now-removed Jesus in a keffiyeh would...

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A Guide to UK Art Spaces Outside London

A Guide to UK Art Spaces Outside London

The road less traveled, from the Folkestone triennial to Hastings Contemporary,...

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Seattle Art Museum Security Guards End 12-Day Strike

Seattle Art Museum Security Guards End 12-Day Strike

The union reached a tentative contract with the museum, securing a raise in base...

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Required Reading

Required Reading

This week: An homage to Romani culture in Manhattan, AI movies in theaters, Syrian...

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Purchase College Was Founded to Make Quality Arts Education Affordable

Purchase College Was Founded to Make Quality Arts Education...

Graduate students have access to generous financial support and paid teaching opportunities,...

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Samia Halaby’s Abstractions Map Displacement and Home

Samia Halaby’s Abstractions Map Displacement and Home

The trailblazing artist’s abstract paintings, on view in her first US museum retrospective,...

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Lorraine O’Grady, Who Dismantled Art World Binaries, Dies at 90

Lorraine O’Grady, Who Dismantled Art World Binaries, Dies...

From her newspaper collages to her performance persona Mademoiselle Bourgeoise Noire,...

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Joyce Kozloff’s Patterns of Resistance

Joyce Kozloff’s Patterns of Resistance

The feminist artist reflects on her work in the groundbreaking Pattern and Decoration...

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Art Therapists on the Frontlines of Trauma Struggle for Recognition

Art Therapists on the Frontlines of Trauma Struggle for...

Advocates are pushing for legislation that would make the practice more financially...

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Researchers Identify Psychedelic Cocktail in Ancient Egyptian Mug

Researchers Identify Psychedelic Cocktail in Ancient Egyptian...

Traces of psychotropic plant matter, human bodily fluids, honey, wheat, yeast, and...

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Sarah Lewis on Ways of Seeing Race in America

Sarah Lewis on Ways of Seeing Race in America

“When it comes to the unspeakable facts in the history of America, it's largely...

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Werner Herzog’s Anticlimatic Exploration of the Human Brain

Werner Herzog’s Anticlimatic Exploration of the Human Brain

The filmmaker seems out of his depth in Theater of Thought, too willing to let his...