Museum
Dalí, Brathwaite, Soin: Dialogues about change at the Art Institute of Chicago
March 20, 2023A high-powered draw at the Art Institute.
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Flags and banners at the Wende Museum: its most moving exhibition ever!
April 13, 2022The Wende Museum has thousands of flags and banners from the former socialist bloc; this new exhibition gives just a taste of what's in their archives.
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The Colescott Chronicles Part 2: Expanding Black representation, critiquing consumerism and colonialism
June 25, 2021[caption id="attachment_110481" align="alignright" width="430"] "George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware." Seattle Art Museum[/caption] Robert Colescott’s satire of Americana George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware has now become the centerpiece of L.A.’s new Lucas Museum of American...
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The Colescott Chronicles Part I: Breaking free of color blindness and abstract art
June 15, 2021One of the founding members of New Black Art just reaped the rewards of his painterly prowess. Robert Colescott’s monumental George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware recently sold for $15.3 million.
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At the Wende, ‘Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain’
December 20, 2019The extraordinarily vital and creative Wende Museum of the Cold War is currently commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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