Through vivid textiles, Hangama Amiri captures a particular moment in time, highlighting a sense of familiarity and intimacy.
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In exhibitions at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center and SOCO Gallery, Stephanie Shih presents a new direction.
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Mysterious animal interactions channel challenging emotions, questions, experiences, and grief.
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Benavidez's piñata-inspired sculptures emerge from Hieronymus Bosch’s "The Garden of Earthly Delights."
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Renda portrays richly symbolic motifs within window frames and archways.
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Messam explores scale, form, and the built environment in large-scale, inflatable installations.
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Cradling tiny homes, seated amid flowers, or asleep and dreaming in a garden, the figures in Sergiu Ciochinǎ’s paintings rest and interact in moments of poignant solitude and reverie. The artist’s Blue Series is a visual collection of his own memories, reflections, and moods, which he elaborates into atmospheric and sometimes fantastical canvases. “For me,Continue reading "Sergiu Ciochinǎ’s ‘Blue Series’ Explores Personal Memories, Dreams, and Moods"
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“Conspiracy theorists (and those of us who argue with them have the scars to show for it) often maintain that the ones debunking the conspiracies are allied with the conspirators.” — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Did you know?
To debunk something is to take the bunk out of it—that bunk being nonsense. (Bunk is short for the synonymous bunkum, which has political origins.) Debunk has been in use since at least the 1920s, and it contrasts with synonyms like disprove and rebut by suggesting that something is not merely untrue but is also a sham—a trick meant to deceive. One can simply disprove a myth, but if it is debunked, the implication is that the myth was a grossly exaggerated or foolish claim.