Jacqueline von Edelberg is “gently curating” an interactive memorial to the victims of the Highland Park mass shooting in Illinois.
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Welcome to Your Place in the Multiverse
Jean Lowe’s work parodies our most banal behaviors by inviting us to consume images of our own consumption.
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Shining a Light on Soviet Jewish Life
Works by Bill Aron and Yevgeniy Fiks chronicle the experience of Soviet Jews who tried to leave their homeland.
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Art Classes Are Helping Transform Medical Education
Classes like Anne Willieme’s are part of the burgeoning field of medical humanities, which aims to tackle the disciplinary divide between art and science.
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The Necessary Art of Leisure
Leisure is contested and in need of protection, especially for Black women artists.
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Silver as a Lens Into Santa Fe and Its “Place in the Myth of the American West”
Upon invitation from the Wheelwright Museum, Nathan Young has created an installation of bridles, bow guards, belt buckles, and cigarette holders ranging from the 19th century to the present.
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A San Francisco Muralist Painting “Latino Culture In All Its Beauty”
Josué Rojas came from El Salvador as a toddler, and his family settled in the Mission.
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How Judy Baca Redefined the Intersection of Art and Activism
Decades of entrenched art-world racism, gender bias, and resistance to overtly political displays in art have delayed a comprehensive treatment of Baca’s career until now.
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Ron Athey, Transgressive Performance Artist
The Los Angeles-based artist gets his first major US museum show after working on the cultural fringes for decades.
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In Malibu, a Large Hole Is Being Dug to Contain Your Grief
Cara Levine’s “Dig a Hole” is inspired by Shiva, the seven-day period of mourning in Judaism.
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Catherine Opie on Her First Monograph, “a Map of My Mind”
For Opie, photographing is about “understanding what it is to be inclusive.”
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India’s Vibrant and Idiosyncratic Truck Art
The graceful art form has a long history, but is currently under threat of disappearing.
