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Visual Arts

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Two Southern Artists Who Didn’t Need To Be Told Anything

One a painter, the other a sculptor, these untrained virtuosos helped define an American modernism they were completely unaware of.

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Kerry James Marshall’s Black Whole

Marshall's historical, political, and racial subjects are as far-ranging as his media.

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At Home With Meta-Jerk Erik van Lieshout

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No Sex Please, We’re Artistic

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Casting no doubts

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NEWS & POLITICS ARCHIVES

Photographer Spencer Tunick Can’t Stop Running Afoul of Facebook’s Baffling Rules on Naked People

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Maybe Facebook Would Let Photographer Spencer Tunick Post Naked Pics If He Worked for Sports Illustrated

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John Chiara’s Big Shots

Pointing his huge camera at nondescript intersections, the photographer arrives at a crossroads of painterly scale and photographic fancy.

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Village Voice article on the Black Panthers

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The Black Panthers: Pictures at a Revolution

Outmanned and outgunned, the Panthers remained steadfast in their belief that Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness is the birthright of all Americans.

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The Writing on the Wool: Brassaï’s Alchemy of Stone, Silver, and Fabric

This was not graffiti for dilettantes wielding fat sharpies.

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