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fromArtnet News
2 hours ago

The Young Painter Curators Are Rushing to Work With | Artnet News

Taína H. Cruz, a young artist born in 1998, is featured prominently in both the Whitney Biennial and MoMA PS1's Greater New York, with her work serving as the face of the Whitney show through a billboard in the Meatpacking District.
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fromThe New Yorker
4 months ago

The Erotics of Coreen Simpson

Coreen Simpson photographs masked Black nudes, obscuring faces to transform Black women into icons of withholding and to confront commercial versus spiritual representations.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
4 months ago

Two new films take the act of looking at art as their structuring principle

Consisting of titles and descriptions of works from antiquity to today that depict the Black female form, Robin Coste Lewis's poem Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015) is, in its rolling invocations of unnamed slave girls and shards of looted statuary, both exhibition catalogue and litany of instrumentalisation. A reading of the poem, in a sanitised and objective voice, serves as the soundtrack to a walk through the Musée du Louvre in the French director Alice Diop's short film Fragments for Venus (2025),
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fromJuxtapoz
5 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Danielle Mckinney's "Second Wind" in London

Danielle Mckinney's Second Wind presents intimate chiaroscuro paintings of Black women embracing stillness, liminality, and quiet emotional transition.
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