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A Millennial Weaver Carries a Centuries-Old Craft Forward
Spiders are weavers. The Navajo artist and weaver Melissa Cody knows this palpably. As she sits cross-legged on sheepskins at her loom, on one of the wooden platforms that boost her higher as her stack of monumental tapestries grows, the sacred ...
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Indigenous Artists Are the Heart of the Venice Biennale
Here are highlights of the range of work produced by Native artists in the pavilions and a central exhibition that proudly calls itself “Foreigners Everywhere.”
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In the Nigeria Pavilion, Criticism Meets Optimism
The group show “Nigeria Imaginary” will be one of the most ambitious African presentations ever at the Venice Biennale.
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A New Way of Looking at the Nude
The artists redefining portraits of the human body for a more inclusive age.
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Serra’s ‘Splash’: A Public Artist’s Private Breakthrough
Serra spattered a pot of molten lead against the base of a wall in Jasper Johns’s home. Then he let it harden. The result looked nothing like a traditional sculpture.
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Serra’s ‘Splash’: A Public Artist’s Private Breakthough
Serra spattered a pot of molten lead against the base of a wall in Jasper Johns’s home. Then he let it harden. The result looked nothing like a traditional sculpture.
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When Richard Serra’s Steel Curves Became a Memorial
The sculptor had a breakthrough in the late 1990s with his torqued metal rings. Then the attack on the World Trade Center, which Serra witnessed, gave them a sudden new significance.
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Meet One of America’s Most Elusive Artists
Joan Jonas’s maximalist, category-defying work combines video, performance, folklore, sculpture and ecology. At 87, she still has no intention of simplifying anything.
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In Art, Migrants Weave Memories of Their Great Escape
At Apexart, an exhibition by Venezuelan migrants offers “a chance to be a part of something again, to return to a community.”
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How Does a Day Job Affect an Artist’s Work? This Exhibition Has an Idea
Plus: an installation in an Indian palace, a farm shop in upstate New York — and more recommendations from T Magazine.
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