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Triangulated Modernisms: Walter Pach’s Engagements with Mexican Art and Artists

Art historian Laurette McCarthy explores connections between Walter Pach and modernists movements in Mexico, Paris, and New York. 

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Watching Howardena Pindell

Writer Jordan McDonald on Howardena Pindell as a storyteller, and what her art asks of the viewer.

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Charles Caryl Coleman Rediscovered

Art historian Adrienne Baxter Bell explores a collection of recently discovered Charles Caryl Coleman photographs.

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Streamlined and Sonic: Harmonicas and Accordions Designed by John Vassos

Musicologist Jayme Kurland shares her research on industrial designer John Vassos' contributions to instrument design. 

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Unknown and Undated: Exploring Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's Miscellaneous Papers
Guest author Tara Allen-Flanagan finds the story of a sculpture in some unexpected places.
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What Makes it Art? or: Why Keep a Letter?
Guest author Anne Evenhaugen shares the backstory of a letter from Ray Johnson to critic Arthur C. Danto and why he kept it. 
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Henry Tanner's Judas: The Lost Disciple
Art historian Jeffrey Richmond-Moll shares a discovery made from a photograph printed in reverse. 
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Aesthetics of Disobedience, Part II: Reconstruction of a Chilean Mural in New York
Using unpublished materials from the Lucy Lippard Papers, art historian Florencia San Martín writes about the correlation between a mural created in Chile and an art action in New York organized in 1973 in solidarity with victims of the coup.
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Aesthetics of Disobedience, Part I: A Piscataway Mural Made in Solidarity with Chile
Art historian Florencia San Martín traces connections between two mural brigades working in Pan-American solidarity with the ideology of politician Salvador Allende, both before and after the 1973 Chilean coup.
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Fifty Ways to Use an Archive
Gwendolyn Owens, director of curatorial affairs for McGill University's Visual Arts Collection, reflects on her many journeys through the Macbeth Gallery Records.
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