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It’s a story heard all too often: the government declares eminent domain and razes minority communities in the name of urban renewal. With this, families are displaced or cut off from resources and each other as roads, parks, and railways promote growth for wealthier or more powerful stakeholders. In destroying communities, culture is also lost as buildings that brought people together for generations disappear, taking with them the activities they used to house.

Amidst the consumerist frenzy after Thanksgiving, it might seem gruesome to think about ye old cashola, but two shows at the Morgan Library offer humorous images as well as strange moral presumptions that invite comparison to the frameworks of our own era. Money is a technology. So is language.

The most remarkable aspect of this extraordinary exhibition of recent work by Korean-born artist Hyong Nam Ahn lies in his choice of works that emanate from an overflowing aesthetic consistency. Since Ahn arrived in Chicago in the 1970s, he has aimed to develop an identity through art. In the process, he has committed himself to opening new doors of speculation, leading to a pure understanding of what his art represents—these qualities are significant and clearly worth seeking out.

Featured in 27 movies and 1,200 musical recordings, this Egyptian singer-actress becomes one of her country’s greatest and highest-paid stars. In her late 20s, shortly after marrying an Egyptian Muslim, she converts to Islam from the Judaism of her birth. A few years later she is named the official singer of the Egyptian Revolution, but infighting among Revolutionary leaders leads to her marginalization.

It poured in Brooklyn Bridge Park the morning I visited Nicholas Galanin’s (Lingít and Unangax̂) temporary installation, In every language there is Land / En cada lengua hay una Tierra (2023), the sky almost the same translucent gray as the adjacent East River. Maybe it was the weather that made the monumental capital letters spelling out “LAND” appear particularly foreboding that day.

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Pictures spanning three centuries with strong links to Scotland are coming to the Fine Paintings, Works on Paper & Sculpture auction on Wednesday 13th

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Jordan Wolfson is an artist whose work reflects the situation of the world today. Acting as a witness to the shadow forces within the human condition,

Maria Emilia Martin, who founded “Latino USA,” which is now the longest-running public radio show in the country covering Latino communities