Introduction: When to Worry About Your Teenage Son Is your teenage son acting a bit… off? Maybe he’s moody, distant, or just not himself and you’re wondering, Is this normal teenage stuff or something more? Sometimes, it’s hard to tell when to worry about your teenage son because going through the teen years is like …
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Ernest Cole, “Untitled” (c. 1968–71) (all images © 2023 Ernest Cole Family Trust; courtesy Aperture) South African photographer Ernest Cole died penniless and almost-forgotten in New York City, in February 1990. Days earlier, Nelson Mandela, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning anti-Apartheid leader, had walked triumphantly out of a South African prison. It was a bittersweet coincidence. …
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SAN FRANCISCO — David Bayus has his media fun while tweaking it too — in Performance Anxiety, an exhibition at Telematic, he recasts the classic Hollywood musical genre and its associated gender stereotypes. For the show’s eponymous 10-minute video centerpiece (2024), Bayus unspools a lively, dark-edged, and playful mashup that refracts Art Deco and noir melodrama …
‣ Writer Kelsey McKinney — best known as the host of the tea-spilling podcast Normal Gossip — reflects in Defector on falling out of love with an artwork. For her, it was Monet’s famed “Impression, Sunrise,” which first stole her heart as a teenager: We emerged in a large octagonal room with giant square Monet paintings …
The Mexico City home studio of trailblazing Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington will be turned into a research center instead of a public museum, the Spanish newspaper El País reported yesterday, October 23. The change in plans follows a reported disagreement between the city’s Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), which owns the property, and unionized staff who …
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The death of a family member brought Miguel Martinez, a painter and teaching artist living in New York City, back to Mexico earlier this year for the first time since he left his Guanajuato hometown for Houston, Texas, 23 years ago, when he was nine years old. Because of his immigration status, Martinez needed special …
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Over 25,000 artists and cultural workers and counting have signed a new petition with a simple, one-line message: “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.” The brief statement was authored by music composer …
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Artist Bing Davis opens the Democracy and the Arts launch at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation with a libation. Davis is curating an exhibition of artists’ responses to the 1964 civil rights address given by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Dayton, Ohio, this fall. The Charles F. Kettering Foundation advances inclusive democracies by fostering …
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On view now at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History features the ambitiously scaled, hyperrealistic charcoal drawings of internationally acclaimed artist Robert Longo. Over his long and distinguished career, Longo has explored the impact of images on our understanding of the world. He first gained attention in the 1970s as part …
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We really thought we’d seen it all in the final weeks leading up to a historic presidential election — that is, until a bronze-colored sculpture memorializing the fabled turd on Nancy Pelosi’s desk during the January 6 insurrection landed like an asteroid at the National Mall in Washington, DC. Yes, you read that right … …
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