Dan Hicks offers a passionate, unflinching critique of how the continued presence of the Benin Bronzes in British museums and national collections perpetuates the colonial violence that “acquired” them in the first place.
Lydia Pyne
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The exhibition is comprised of two parallel bodies of work: Joseph’s well-known works on paper, and his newer exploration of sculptural wall reliefs.
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Sanders' new book walks readers through how print is created, and how every historically new technique depends on its precedents.
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Works from a diverse set of artists in the United States, Latin America, and Brazil showcase the many ways that artists in the mid-20th-century Americas experimented with light, color, and materiality.
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Talking Back: Portraits Unmasked (and the Stories Behind The Faces)
by Lydia Pyneby Lydia PyneThis is a book about the hidden, captivating, complex lives of portrait sitters and how history has — or has not — remembered them.
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I remember when Nicole Tersigni’s thread of portraiture-based mansplaining memes started popping up in my Twitter feed last year. I laughed until I cried.
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Not only does our constant upgrading fundamentally impact our perception and experience of time, but it shapes how we document and share ourselves as well as our legacies.
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A Mycological Foray: A New Look at John Cage and His Mushroom Obsession
by Lydia Pyneby Lydia PyneMushrooms — especially in conjunction with Cage’s life, compositions, and approach to music theory — are full of metaphor.
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The Avant-Garde Networks of Amauta: Argentina, Mexico, and Peru in the 1920s
by Lydia Pyneby Lydia PyneLatin American voices became the epicenters for powerful, far-reaching intellectual projects in the mid- to late-1920s, like the Peruvian magazine Amauta.
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Drawing from the Morgan Library & Museum’s stunning collection, Medieval Monsters examines the monstrous through three specific themes: terrors, aliens, and wonders.