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Across Africa, Finding Common Ground in Their Art

António Ole and Aimé Mpane came together to converse through artwork in a new insallation at the National Museum of African Art
By Joseph Caputo

Girls Barbies Harlem 1970 Camilo Jose Vergara

Harlem Transformed: the Photos of Camilo José Vergara

For decades, the photographer has documented the physical and cultural changes in Harlem and other American urban communities
By Jamie Katz

Alpinia boninsimensis by Jonathan Singer

Flowers Writ Large

With his Botanica Magnifica, podiatrist-turned-photographer Jonathan Singer captures flowers on the grandest of scales
By Megan Gambino

Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor

1934: The Art of the New Deal

An exhibition of Depression-era paintings by federally-funded artists provides a hopeful view of life during economic travails
By Jerry Adler

Arthur E Cederquist Old Pennsylvania Farm in Winter

What’s the Deal about New Deal Art?

As the first of the New Deal acts that funded public art projects with federal money, the PWAP produced more than 15,000 works of art in just six months
By David A. Taylor

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