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Art and Activism

Artwork accompanying Christian Viveros-Fauné response in the Village Voice to Dean Kissick's “The Painted Protest: How Politics Destroyed Contemporary Art”

CULTURE

The Culture of Complaint 2.0: White Guy Wants His Museum Back

Triggered by a recent viral essay — considering the false dichotomies of culture wars past and present.

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Image for Village Voice article about Narsiso Martinez, whose portraits of fieldworkers recall the pathos of Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."

ART

An Essential Artist: Narsiso Martinez Layers Farmworkers Over Industry

The artist creates a visual epic with produce boxes and faces of fieldworkers.

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2018 Village Voice archive article by R.C. Baker about Beyonce's genre-bending "Apeshit" video shot at the Louvre.

ART ARCHIVES

Beyoncé and Jay-Z Work It Out in the Louvre

The personal becomes the classical.

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VOICE CHOICE

An Exhibition of Compelling Art by Ukrainians Benefits Ukraine

Ten contemporary Ukrainian artists reveal how culture separates the beasts from the angels.

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ART

Neal Adams, Batman and X-Men Artist, Dies at Age 80

One of America’s greatest artists, Adams set a standard for propulsive realism in comics.

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Village Voice article by Christian Viveros-Faune about the Bahamian-born New York artist Tavares Strachan

ART

The Visibility Artist: Tavares Strachan

From making art objects to creating experiences, the Bahamian artist brings forward what has been forgotten, and unlearns what has been mistaught

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FALL PRINT EDITION 2021

9/11: Trials And Triumphs Of The ‘Tribute In Light’

“The big lighting rigs surrounding the pit illuminated the smoke, which made you think you could feel the buildings within the cloud.”

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SPRING PRINT EDITION 2021

A Protest Anthem Is Born

Cuba’s Artists And Rappers Blast Dictatorship in Cuba (and Everywhere Else) With “Homeland and Life”

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SPRING PRINT EDITION 2021

Nan Goldin Gets Your P.A.I.N.

Nan Goldin Talks Activism, America’s Opioid Epidemic, Toxic Philanthropy, and Her Upcoming NYC Exhibition

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2021 Village Voice review by Christian Viveros-Faune of the Goya exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

ART

Our Time Begs for Goya 

'Goya’s Graphic Imagination,' at the Met, Channels the Spirit of the Capitol Mob

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