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A Work Gifted to David Drake’s Descendants Is the Star of Theaster Gates’s Powerful Gagosian Show
“It started out as young scholarly curiosity,” the artist Theaster Gates said of his initial interest in the work of the 19th-century enslaved potter David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter. Gates was an undergraduate at Iowa State University in the early ’90s, making ceramics that he said referenced “white Americana craft” from the read more
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NBA Star Devon Booker Finds Perspective at James Turrell’s Fabled Roden Crater
Devon Booker, a five-time All Star guard for the NBA’s Phoenix Suns, has visited James Turrell’s fabled Roden Crater three times—and even struck up something of a friendship with an artist who called him an “amazing person … taking it to another level, and that’s what all artists try to do.” As reported in a read more
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The Met Hires MoMA’s Rising Star Photography Curator Oluremi C. Onabanjo
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has hired Oluremi C. Onabanjo as its new curator in the Department of Photographs. She will begin at the museum this summer. At the Met, Onabanjo will be focused on managing the Walther Collection, a 2025 gift of more than 6,500 historical and contemporary photographs and albums read more
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Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock to Star in Blockbuster Exhibition at the Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will host a major exhibition for two major artists who have never been subject to such treatment by the institution before: Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock. The famously married artists each established a legacy that stands on its own. This show, to open in October and run read more
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A Painterly Short Film Follows Alfred Nakache from Swimming Star to Holocaust Survivor
As a child, Artem “Alfred” Nakache (1915-1983) was afraid of water. The youngest of 11 children in a Jewish family that emigrated from Iraq to Constantine, Algeria, Alfred eventually overcame his terror of the depths and actually excelled at swimming. He became so skilled that by the mid-1930s, he had won both local and French read more
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