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At first glance, it might seem like Maine writer and illustrator Jessica Esch happened upon the Archives...
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The soft sunlight of a late afternoon streams into the atelier, dapples the 20-foot-high walls, and rests...
At the tail end of April 1961, a teenage girl walking by the window of the old Gunther Jaeckel shop on...
At the Rubenstein Arts Center on Duke University’s campus, an image from a microscope makes an alien...
When artist Kyle Meyer began photographing gay men in Swaziland, or eSwatini, five years ago, his subject...
When Adrien Broom first visited the former Long Island home of Jackson Pollock and his wife, the painter...
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As a leading scholar and curator of African American art, David Driskell, who died of Covid-19 last April...
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From his unassuming home base in West Des Moines, Iowa, Fred Truck (b. 1946) has spent a lifetime buildin...
On an early June evening, the three-paneled video billboard that towers over one of downtown Toronto...
I will never forget the startling moment when I pulled Frida Kahlo’s (1907–1954) tiny, tin-framed pa...
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In a glass-fronted, sunlit studio on a wooded ravine in the San Fernando Valley, Tyrus Wong spent summer...
Labeled an “artist of the Deep South” by critics who praised her “vigorous” and “dramatic” abstract...