Today you can read about the politicized and often ego-driven 500 year-history of the English dictionary, Yinka Shonibare’s intervention in the legacies of Winston Churchill and Queen Victoria, and Lauren Lee McCarthy's revealing work on how Big Brother uses our bodily fluids — including sperm, eggs, and saliva — to surveil us.
Today you can read about the politicized and often ego-driven 500 year-history of the English dictionary, Yinka Shonibare’s intervention in the legacies of Winston Churchill and Queen Victoria, and Lauren Lee McCarthy's revealing work on how Big Brother uses our bodily fluids — including sperm, eggs, and saliva — to surveil us. In the news, a Rhode Island school cancels an exhibition because of a student's "anti-Catholic" work, while Bard College in Upstate New York announces a new Keith Haring Wing funded by the late artist's foundation. There's more, including a visit to Pratt Institute's MFA photography show, Alexandra M. Thomas's review of a new book by Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman tackling questions of identity and representation in contemporary Black art, and more. — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor | |
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| | | An exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York shows that lexicographers are just like us: petty, creative, and political. Daniel Larkin |
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LATEST REVIEWS | | | | The students put their own spins on landscape photography to coax out questions of race, power, sexuality, and sustainability. Daniel Larkin |
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| | | Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman’s Millennial Style considers the political utility of Black abstraction and related forms to refute false narratives of progress. Alexandra M. Thomas |
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Sponsored | | | | This year’s show features art by MFA, MA, and BFA students working across a variety of disciplines. On view May 15–29 in the Bronx. |
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| | | Bodily Autonomy takes advantage of humor and hyperbole to demonstrate a very real world in which biosurveillance is prevalent overtly and covertly. Renée Reizman |
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| | In a gallery such as Serpentine, defined by both Britishness and blue-chip status in the art world, how much can categories be suspended? Aida Amoako |
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IN MEMORIAM | Frank Stella (1936–2024)
American abstract painter | Hyperallergic Norma Howard (1958–2024)
Choctaw painter | KOSU Daniel Kramer (1932–2024)
Photographer known for Bob Dylan portraits | Rolling Stone |
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