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Siddhartha Mitter

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Bodys at Rest: An African Artist Gets His Due at MoMA

Bodys Isek Kingelez’s urban fantasia

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At the New Museum, the Empire Strikes Back

John Akomfrah’s postcolonial blues

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How Rammellzee Turned Graffiti Into Urban Mythology

‘Rammellzee: Racing for Thunder’ can’t help but summon nostalgia for a time when the city was rougher, more raw, its public culture infused with outer-borough grassroots brilliance and improvisational futurism instead of corporate programming

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Arthur Jafa Taps Into the Underground Current of Blacknuss

“The work is intellectual, and just as much, spiritual. You might say it’s got soul.”

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Proof of Concept: Thinking About Adrian Piper

A new show at MOMA explores the artist, performer, and scholar’s five decades of challenging viewers

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Best of Spring

At the Asia Society, Samita Sinha Sings the Body Electric

In a new performance piece, the musician and performer channels the contradictions of the South Asian psyche

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How Ahmed Mater Reveals the Humanity of Mecca

“The way my eye works is to look to the city as a body.”

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Banksy’s Back in New York City

The art world’s man of mystery bombed the Bowery to protest the imprisonment of Turkish artist Zehra Doğan

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Emmett Till

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After “Open Casket”: What Emmett Till Teaches Us Today

"To stand before Till’s casket was an emotional experience. It also brought some retrospective clarity to the biggest art controversy of 2017."

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Carnival of the Grotesque: Kara Walker’s Insistent Resistance in New Orleans

Walker’s installation was freighted with layers of site-specific symbolism — none of it subtle if you knew a bit about local history

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