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FotoFest Houston’s Power Lies in What Remains Unseen
For some artists, erasure is a way to restore dignity.
Three Tribeca Gallery Newcomers on What Drew Them to the Neighborhood
James Fuentes, Asya Geisberg, and Gabrielle Giattino of Bureau have all decamped from their original spaces this month.
Selva Aparicio’s Memorials to Loss and Renewal
Aparicio treats unwanted things with extreme sensitivity, personally gathering and storing them over many years, renewing them with remarkable vision.
VALIE EXPORT Insists on Taking Up Space
EXPORT’s urban interventions in her exhibition Embodied alert us to the risks of being read as femme in a highly visible, public space.
A Los Angeles Residency Envisions a Radical Future for Experimental Art
Coaxial Arts serves as a crucial resource and hub for LA-based video and multimedia artists, who have rallied around the organization as it weathers financial challenges.
At Age 81, Carole Harris Is Embracing Imperfection
Her creations have a beautiful economy, where even rusty old machine parts might become transformed into a gilded patina on one of her sensuous memory maps.
What’s Lost When Activist Art Enters the Institution?
The institutionalization of radical history in Women in Revolt! inevitably blunts the message, and streamlines the complex whole into a concise lineage.
London’s Royal Academy Looks Critically at Its Past
The academic rigor of Entangled Pasts is counterbalanced by the poignant responses by contemporary artists and some astonishingly inspired curating.
Javier Arce’s Collaboration With the Spanish Wilderness
The artist considers his own place in the complex history of landscape painting through canvases stretched imperfectly on wood from trees around his home.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Celebrates 50 Years of Resiliency
The institution, which helps artists and arts organizations secure grants and hosts free public programming in New York City, hasn’t been without challenges.
How Beatrix Potter Hopped Into Our Hearts
An exhibition at the Morgan Library pays tribute to the illustrator’s prowess as a naturalist, storyteller, mycologist, and sheep farmer.