Simulation Sketchbook takes as its starting point the reality that digital artists, like all artists, sketch out their work as well.
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The Turner Prize Wrestles With an Identity Crisis
How does a selective competition fit with the contemporary art world’s aspirations toward greater inclusivity?
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Who Gets to Honor Native Women in the US?
“Dignity of Earth and Sky,” unveiled in 2016, raises questions about who should depict Native people and how they should be portrayed.
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Truth-Telling Confronts the Colonial Gaze
In this online exhibition, Indigenous artists reclaim realities long denied them by US and Canadian federal governments — including moments of collective reverie.
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How an LA Football Stadium Became a Home for Art
With two exhibitions at SoFi Stadium, the Kinsey African American Art & History Collection seeks to engage a different art audience.
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War, Bloodshed, and the German Grotesque
The works that best exemplify a uniquely German grotesque in Reexamining the Grotesque are those that reflect the war and Weimar years.
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Graham Nickson’s Empathic Formalism
Nickson’s interests lie in the individual’s place in a world shaped by immensities of land and water, sky and cloud.
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Institutional Critique That Makes You Laugh and Cry
Miguel Calderón examines class, violence, and corruption in Mexican society with macabre, irreverent humor.
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San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum Lends Its Facade to Iran’s Protest Art
The works spanned a variety of media, showcasing the diversity of artmaking and image production that supplements a revolution.
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Immigrant Women Shine at SF’s Chinese New Year Parade
For this year’s edition of the San Francisco festival, 16 Latina and Chinese women designed and hand-sewed flags that tell their story.
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One-on-One With Cyclona
Robert Legorreta, also known as “Cyclona,” discusses the origins of his performance art and ongoing political activism.
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Art Between Land and Self
How do we consider land-inspired art in an age when huge swaths of our shared world are being clear cut, mined, drilled, and desertified?