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Living in an Age of Empathy
Installation views of the exhibition A LABOUR OF LOVE at Johannesburg Art Gallery, curated by Yvette Mutumba and Gabi Ngcobo. Photo: C&. “We don’t live in an age of reason, we live in an age of...
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Robots, Race, and Algorithms: Stephanie Dinkins at Recess Assembly
Stephanie Dinkins. Twins (or at some point, I decided to mimic the robot), 2017. Courtesy of the artist © Stephanie Dinkins. “Who are your people?” Since 2014, the artist Stephanie Dinkins has asked...
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The Poetry of Everyday Life: An Interview with Project Row Houses Director...
The opening of Round 47, curated by Ryan N. Dennis. Photo: Alex Barber. Courtesy of Project Row Houses. Founded in 1993 by African-American artists and activists who wanted to enact a positive,...
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Composing Compassion: On Jumana Manna’s “A Magical Substance Flows Into Me”
The filmmaker’s mother. Production still from Jumana Manna’s A Magical Substance Flows into Me, 2015. Co-commissioned by the Sharjah Art Foundation and Chisenhale Gallery with Malmö Konsthall and the...
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How Did We Get Here? A Reading List for Understanding Race in America
In the current political climate, America’s racial toxicity is amplified and exploited through a revisionist lens. Through our current presidential administration, racial anxieties have found a...
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Radical Art in a Conservative School
Empathy project by students Caryn Trammel and Emma Kruse. Radical art uses provocative imagery to convey a variety of confrontational and controversial ideas. Radical art should make viewers question...
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Orawan Arunrak: Words to Communicate
Orawan Arunrak. Exit – Entrance, 2017. Installation with wallpaper with printed drawings, 10 sheets of handwritten text, QR code, light, curtain, 2 floor cushions, sound (65 minutes, co-editor: Pedro...
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Empathy in Training: Kerry Tribe’s “Standardized Patient”
New Work: Kerry Tribe, 2017. Installation view, SFMOMA. Photo: Katherine Du Tiel. Can empathy be taught? The Los Angeles–based artist and filmmaker Kerry Tribe ponders this question in her most recent...
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Patient Time Scripts: Revisiting the Work of Sokhaya Charles Nkosi
Charles Nkosi. Soweto at dawn, 1979. Watercolor and ink; 42 x 44 cm. Fort Hare University De Beers Collection, taken from De Jager, E.J. 1992. Images of Man: Contemporary South African Black Art and...
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Keep it Real, Keep it Relevant
Students work on a collaborative painting. Courtesy of the author. Student engagement should be considered before a student even walks through the door of a classroom. If as educators we have not...
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Dominate Anonymity: An Interview with Guy Woueté
Guy Woueté. Love Jungle series. A set of 64 photos taken during the dismantlement of Calais’Jungle, a French refugee and migrant camp, in October 2016. Dimensions variable. © Guy Woueté. Cameroonian...
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Reading Critically: Alexandra Bell’s “Counternarratives”
Alexandra Bell, Counternarratives. Presented at MoMA PS1 as part of VW Sunday Sessions, 2017. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo by Charles Roussel. Since January 2017, Alexandra Bell’s large prints have...
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Below the Surface: Creating Hope through Portraiture
Student portrait. Courtesy of the author. Self-image can be a difficult topic to address, with people of all ages and backgrounds. Today, with social media, blogging, and digital autobiographies, we...
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Hospitality and Hosting Relationships in Michael Rakowitz’s Art
Michael Rakowitz. paraSITE, 2000. Plastic bags, polyethylene tubing, hooks, tape. Courtesy of the artist. Since 1998, the artist Michael Rakowitz has been constructing his paraSITE structures and...
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