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CONTACT Photography Festival Activates Toronto With Citywide Lens-Based Art

CONTACT Photography Festival Activates Toronto With Citywide...

Through exhibitions and public art, the 2025 festival addresses the importance of...

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What if Peacemakers Shaped the Future?

What if Peacemakers Shaped the Future?

Poetics of Power, grounded in feminist critique, imagines a world free from militarized,...

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The Contested History of American Labor

The Contested History of American Labor

An exhibition shows that our beleaguered present is not apocalyptically singular...

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The Everyday Lives of Women’s Clothing 

The Everyday Lives of Women’s Clothing 

Real Clothes, Real Lives shows that women have adapted their attire to accommodate...

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The Danish Women Who Made Modernism Radical

The Danish Women Who Made Modernism Radical

A new book invites us into the tight-knit circle of women modernists in late-19th-century...

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Texas Schools Ban Lesson Over Exposed Nipple on Virginia Flag 

Texas Schools Ban Lesson Over Exposed Nipple on Virginia...

“Nudity on a state flag is an absurd justification to censor a history lesson,”...

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26-Foot Nick Cave Sculpture Heads to Michigan Sculpture Park

26-Foot Nick Cave Sculpture Heads to Michigan Sculpture...

The artist’s bronze "Amalgam (Origin)" will join works by the likes of Auguste Rodin...

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NYC Subway Mural Evokes Hilma af Klint’s Mysticism

NYC Subway Mural Evokes Hilma af Klint’s Mysticism

An abstract mural by feminist collective Hilma's Ghost draws from tarot archetypes...

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A View From the Easel

A View From the Easel

“This workspace allows the out of doors to come in.”

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Required Reading

Required Reading

This week: colonial photography through a Diné lens, Kikkoman soy sauce bottle design,...

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The Darkness of Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light

The Darkness of Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light

One of a new documentary’s most intriguing strands is the way that brand seemed...

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A Collective of Lesbian Activists Is a Fierce Family

A Collective of Lesbian Activists Is a Fierce Family

A show highlighting work by members of the collective fierce pussy presents them...

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Five New York City Shows to See Right Now

Five New York City Shows to See Right Now

From historical shows about labor to investigations of color to John Singer Sargent’s...

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John Humble, Photographer Who Captured LA’s Contradictions, Dies at 81

John Humble, Photographer Who Captured LA’s Contradictions,...

For five decades, Humble focused his lens on areas of the city often overlooked...

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Italian Street Artist Mocks Far-Right Attendees of the Pope’s Funeral

Italian Street Artist Mocks Far-Right Attendees of the...

The artwork depicts the late pontiff from heaven, wondering “who invited” Trump...

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Smithsonian Institution Says It Won’t Remove Anti-Segregation Exhibits

Smithsonian Institution Says It Won’t Remove Anti-Segregation...

The institution denied reports that objects related to the Civil Rights Movement...