The point is: We remember traumas, and it’s crucial that we do, and not foist off our responsibility onto mute things that do not answer when we call.
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The Analog Charm of Pre-Internet Technological Art
Electric Dreams at Tate Modern shows the sheer extent to which human imagination and inventiveness harnessed technological progressions in the infancy of computing.
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Tabitha Arnold’s Tapestries Eulogize the Working Class
Her work integrates contemporary labor strikes into the visual language of social realism, asserting that these efforts are not anomalies but regularities.
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A Garden of Ideas in John Berger’s Letters to His Son
Over to You is an ever-evolving meditation on images by the art critic and his youngest son, two men linked by blood and art.
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Raoul De Keyser’s Dramas of Looking
Because the waywardness of his paintings is a product of its unspoken logic, his marks and variations are performing precisely the right roles.
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The Artist Bending Modernism Toward Mysticism
Marina Perez Simão systematizes nature’s motifs and distills them into interlocking volumes and color bands in paintings as cerebral as they are sensuous.
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Roxanne Jackson’s Fantasia Under the Sea
Maybe Jackson’s ceramic “monsters” are just creatures who look like they shouldn’t belong — and in her world-building Jackson has made a place where they do.
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Alexis Rockman Paints Humanity’s Final Season
Taking on Thomas Cole’s epic The Course of Empire, the New York artist asks if we’ve all had a good run.
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The Drag Queen Artist Who Helped Make the East Village Interesting
From a large Wigstock banner to more intimate self-portraits, Tabboo!’s art sparkles anew in two contemporaneous exhibitions.
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Stephanie H. Shih’s Time Capsules of the Heart
She rescues objects from the garbage bin of mass-produced memory and reimagines them as art.
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The Tumultuous Journey of Faith Ringgold’s Rikers Mural
Catherine Gund’s Paint Me a Road Out of Here uses the artwork to tell truths about the US carceral system.
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The Nefarious Power of the Unseen
Invisibility: Powers & Perils raises exciting questions around racial, technological, and ecological invisibility, and leaves us asking for more.