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Art Museum of the Americas Cancels Exhibitions by Black, Queer Artists

The cancellation may reflect the museum’s efforts to carry out the Trump administration’s updated priorities for US foreign diplomacy.
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The Underwater Photographer of the Year Celebrates 60 Years of Wildlife Diversity

The Underwater Photographer of the Year Celebrates 60 Years of Wildlife DiversityFrom the depths of the Red Sea to the swamps of the Everglades, the winning images take viewers on a journey across the world.

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In a Timely D.C. Exhibition, Artists of Color Use Sculpture to Question Who’s Worth Remembering

“The Shape of Power” is on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum through September 14.
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Time Traveling: Danielle Mckinney in Conversation with Edward Hopper

Time Traveling: Danielle Mckinney in Conversation with Edward Hopper
We don’t need to remind you about our love and inspired writing and conversations about and with Danielle Mckinney: she has been the cover of the print edition and a recent guest on the Radio Juxtapoz podcast. Obviously, part of our admiration and interest in the work is the suspension of time in her works, this sort of incredible sense of intimacy, non-era-defined scenes, the solitary power of being alone. They are, indeed, powerful works. For TEFAF Maastricht, Marianne Boesky will pair the smokey, compelling and singular works of Mckinney with Edward Hopper, he too a painter of suspended time and nostalgic loneliness. It is, in so many ways, a perfect duo. 
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Eric McHenry is the One “Paying the Clowns”

Eric McHenry is the One
I just found out that Britt Lower from Severence joined the circus between season 1 and season 2, and presumably, before they start shooting season 3. I don’t know why this is significant to Eric McHenry’s Paying the Clowns at One Trick Pony, but there is a surreal and sinister sort of portrayal coming from these works. But they are beautiful and quirky, a sort of kitsch meets nostalgic theatrical setting. But something about the performative aspect of the circus connects with a desire to witness an other, a differecnt dimension, a different reality and yet still be connected to the present. These works take you somewhere and give you the chance to discover a different view of performance. 
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Mike Kuchar is a “Show Off”

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François Ghebaly New York is delighted to present Show Off, iconoclastic filmmaker and visual artist Mike Kuchar’s newest exhibition at the gallery’s Lower East Side location. Since the 1960s, Mike Kuchar has been a majorly influential figure in the underground film and comics scenes. Together with his twin brother George, the Kuchars gained cult recognition first in the Bronx and then in San Francisco for their over-the-top, no-budget films that sent up Hollywood epics, weepy romances, and sci-fi B movies. In iconic films like Sins of the Fleshapoids (1965), The Craven Sluck (1967), and Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults (1976), Mike developed his distinctive style that jettisoned traditional narrative structure and acting professionalism in favor of extravagant, tender sagas that would have a significant impact on emerging theorizations…