MTV and the Hirshhorn’s Artist Competition Focuses on Self-Portraits – ARTnews.com

(Spoiler alert: This article contains information and plot points from the sixth episode of The Exhibit, a docuseries created by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and MTV.) As season one of The Exhibit comes to a close, the artists are tasked with creating a self-portrait that captures who they are today—a tall order with only eight hours…

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A Major Faith Ringgold Show at the Picasso Museum Reflects Efforts to Renegotiate the Spanish Painter’s Fraught Legacy

Faith Ringgold’s black feminist art has been an oversight in the mainstream art world for decades until last year when the New Museum in New York staged a major retrospective surveying her practice. Spanning nearly six decades of her work, it was the largest solo show of the Harlem-born artist since 1998. This year, in…

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