Summer 2022 Cover Story: ARYZ's Big Moves

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Summer 2022 Cover Story: ARYZ's Big Moves

In street art, the topic has always revolved around the question of the next big thing in muralism, or the next “name” to take the movement to a new level, the discussion always about the questio May 31, 2022
Kate Pincus-Whitney: Generosity of Spirit

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Kate Pincus-Whitney: Generosity of Spirit

It has been a long two years of heavy stillness. I honestly believe that at the deepest point in the pandemic I could have easily taken a finger and dragged it across my thigh, unsurprised to find it June 13, 2022
Jaime Muñoz: Blood Memory

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Jaime Muñoz: Blood Memory

Pomona, California, situated east of downtown Los Angeles, between the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains, in what was once known as the citrus triangle, is a bit of a gateway into the Inland E June 20, 2022
Maya Hayuk: Heritage & Hope

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Maya Hayuk: Heritage & Hope

Accidents happen—on purpose. I’ve heard that phrase before and it feels reasonable, yet abstract enough to inform daily life. Ukrainian-American Maya Hayuk’s paintings are an elaborate stream o July 05, 2022
Jenny Holzer: Righteous Rage

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Jenny Holzer: Righteous Rage

Here’s the shaggy dog, like a resort comedian of yore who must begin with a “funny thing happened on the way…” story: before I interview Jenny Holzer we are writing to one another. It’s a t June 27, 2022
Faith Ringgold: The American People

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Faith Ringgold: The American People

In describing the blues, cultural historian Albert Murray explains how “they affirm life and humanity itself in the very process of confronting failures and existential absurdities. The spirit of t July 11, 2022
Alvin Armstrong: Rhythm Paintings

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Alvin Armstrong: Rhythm Paintings

Alvin Armstrong was all set to become an acupuncturist—then he started painting for 15 hours a day. A powerful work ethic and a love of movement stitch up the sinewy threads that suffuse the artist July 18, 2022
Shara Mays: The Maximalist

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Shara Mays: The Maximalist

“Color, color, and more color. I can’t get enough of it. I am obsessed with the vibrancy of bright color,” explains Shara Mays, describing a main ingredient of her work. Drips and swirls, twist July 25, 2022
Jamel Shabazz: Eyes on the Streets @ Bronx Museum, NYC

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Jamel Shabazz: Eyes on the Streets @ Bronx Museum, NYC

Photography has always had a sense of nostalgia for Brooklyn-born Jamel Shabazz. After a stint in the military that saw him stationed in Germany for 3 years in the late 1970s, he “returned home to April 11, 2022
At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth Century American Modernism @ Whitney Museum, NYC

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At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth Century American Modernism @ Whitney Museum, NYC

Pamela Colman Smith’s death certificate identified her as a “spinster of independent means.” Like many American Modernists, the artist, known to friends as Pixie, was fascinated by the mystique May 11, 2022
Diego Rivera’s America @ SFMOMA, San Francisco

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Diego Rivera’s America @ SFMOMA, San Francisco

When in 1932, America’s richest family commissioned a painter to create a mural for their self-named Rockefeller Plaza, they placed their vision in the hands of Diego Rivera who believed an artist July 12, 2022
Well Done, Grasshopper: ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena

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Well Done, Grasshopper: ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena

“Before art school I was doodling in the margins of my notebook,” Nancy Nguyen told us. “My English teacher saw them and suggested a career in design.” In a maybe familiar scenario, and bolst June 28, 2022
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