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As an artist, a creative, a free thinker, how do you know when you’ve “arrived”? One of the sharpest ironies about the art world is that its most radical minds are only considered “successful” once invited into art’s most rigid … Continued

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Since the first automobiles hit the road more than 100-years-ago, cars have left a lasting imprint on the design of our environment and reshaped how we live, work, and enjoy ourselves. Cars have altered our ideas about mobility, connecting us … Continued

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Automania at MOMA
Adam Pendleton. Untitled (HEY MAMA HEY), 2021. Silkscreen ink on Mylar. Sheet: 38 x 29”. Framed: 40 3/8 x 31 3/8”. Image courtesy of the artist.

American artist Adam Pendleton’s first solo show in New York City consists of a large-scale installation at the Museum of Modern Art and it is fantastic. The show, titled Adam Pendleton: Who is Queen? opened on September 18th and runs … Continued

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The Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante, a small photography club founded in 1939, gave birth to modernist photography in Brazil. It is one of the oldest photographic associations and is considered the artistic cradle of many well-known photographers from this South … Continued

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Thomaz Farkas. Ministry of Education (Ministério da Educação) [Rio de Janeiro]. c. 1945. Gelatin silver print, 12 13/16 × 11 3/4 in. (32.6 × 29.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist
Gilberto Rivera, An Institutional Nightmare, 2012. Federal prison uniform, commissary papers, floor wax, prison reports, newspaper, acrylic paint on canvas. 32.25 x 24.25 inches. Collection Jesse Krimes.

One of the most significant art events of the year has been the revolutionary exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration at MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York. The show opened on September 12, 2020, with the … Continued

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In the year 1957, crime rates soared in many major U.S. cities as the country navigated through the Great Migration, the Civil Rights Movement, and the consequent thrusts of major social transitions. At the time, Gordon Parks held the first … Continued

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Gordon Parks, Atmosphere of Crime, © The Gordon Parks Foundation
oan Mitchell (American, 1925-1992) Untitled, 1957 Oil on paper 19 1/2 x 17 1/2″ (49.5 x 44.5 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Committee on Drawings Funds © Estate of Joan Mitchell

There is a new exhibition on view at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and as you might have imagined, it is one well worth your time. It is no secret that MoMA’s collection is one of the greatest … Continued

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Museums are primarily white spaces—not merely aesthetically, but racially as well. The reason that Beyoncé and Jay-Z‘s 2018 music video “Apeshit” is set in Paris’s Louvre is that the African American duo symbolically expands a predominantly white establishment to include … Continued

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jean Michel Basquiat's la Hara 1981
Sophie Taeuber Arp

Taking a stroll through Sophie Taeuber-Arp‘s vivid world of magnificent abstract art on display at MOMA is a privilege indeed. Until the reopening of MOMA we would like to give you a preview of what you will see in this … Continued

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Fundamentally one of the greatest female photographers of her time, Dorothea Lange has remained at the forefront of the world of photography for generations. Migrant Mother, an image familiar to many, even those unaware of the backstory, first found its … Continued

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Man Stepping from Cable Car, San Francisco. 1956. Dorothea Lange, Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York.