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Monthly Archives: January 2018

“On Exile” at Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia (MAAT) @ Hyperallergic

LISBON — A dark, solemn space is illuminated by two glowing projections in On Exile, a documentary project by Portuguese intermedia artist José Carlos Teixeira, on display at the . The first throws light down from above onto a plinth, presenting pages from a book titled The Refugee, written in 1957 by a […]

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“The Cyberlaw Guide to Protest Art” by Harvard University Cyberlaw Clinic @ Hyperallergic

In the days immediately following the 2017 Women’s March, members of the Harvard University Cyberlaw Clinic and their colleagues at metaLAB learned that a number of artists who’d created some of the iconic images from the march were facing challenges, mostly brought on by the fact that work they’d created for […]

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John M. Anderson Endowed Lecture Series Presenter @ PSU School of Visual Arts – Wednesday, January 31, 3:00 pm

At first I was just so incredibly flattered and astonished to be invited to PSU as a visiting lecturer, and to help curate the Spring undergrad show, by a cohort including and involving the wonderful Shannon Goff, and the utterly inimitable Sidney Mullis. As the time has drawn closer, I […]

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Ebony Patterson at UM Institute for the Humanities @ Hyperallergic

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — With her mixed-media installation, Of 72, artist Ebony G. Patterson asks a very straightforward question: “What happens when seventy-two men and one woman dies and no one knows who they are?” Patterson, a native Jamaican, is raising this question in connection to the 2010 “Tivoli Incursion” […]

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Self-Care Winter Guide @ Detroit Metro Times

Self-care has become a hot topic these days, evoking ideas of expensive bath bombs and boutique consumerism as a panacea for lives spent struggling against the ravages of late capitalism. But considered another way, self-care is about devoting time, space, and resources to aspects of daily life that contribute to […]

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Nabil Mousa at Arab American National Museum @ Art in America

Atlanta-based painter Nabil Mousa’s “American Landscape” series (2008­–12) trades in readily identifiable symbols: the American flag, the gendered iconography of restroom signs, and the Human Rights Campaign’s logo of a yellow equals sign on a blue background. Only a painter as gifted as Mousa could make such generic source material […]

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“Fired Up!” at TMA @ Hyperallergic

TOLEDO, Ohio — Whenever I encounter a museum exhibition that frames itself as presenting exclusively female artists, I have to run through the same internal debate about emphasizing artists’ gender. I recognize the necessity of making a conscious effort to include or exclusively feature female artists — or any other […]

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