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Video: Wangechi Mutu | The Timeless, Ancient Language of Art

Using found materials and mesmerizing structures that unearth deep-rooted emotions, Wangechi Mutu’s visual creations celebrate our collective history and explore how art communicates into the future. From ancient rock carvings in the Sahel to her own chimeric abstractions, she shares…

July 23, 2023 · 4 Comments

Mike Vargo: Ancient Footprints and Bighorns

The Valley of Fire, northeast of Vegas, is a maze of canyons and towering rock formations in hues from yellow to red…. And on some of those, Indigenous people 2,000 to 4,000 years ago scraped figures and shapes into the varnish. 

March 8, 2023 · 11 Comments

Rick Campbell: Archeology

I have come a thousand miles for this. J&L’s ruins, a gravel plain on the Ohio’s west bank. There’s little left but an archeology of memory—smokestacks, ovens, foundry, smelter, slag. … Continue reading

February 27, 2019 · 1 Comment

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