70s

The Innovative Quilt Makers of Gee’s Bend Created a New Canon

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Marfa’s Arid Desert Was the Ultimate Outdoor Gallery for Donald Judd

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David Goldblatt Makana Tshabalala and Ntsiki Kabane, Rockville, Dube, Soweto, 1970 © David Goldblatt, courtesy Goodman Gallery

David Goldblatt’s Intimate Portrait of Domestic Life Under Apartheid

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FEC8MG ZOMBIES English pop group on BBC TV's Top of the Pops in September 1965. Photo Tony Gale. Image shot 1965. Exact date unknown.

Top of the Pops and the Fraught Task of Rerunning History

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Franco Vaccari’s Photomatic D’Italia Taught Me That Infatuation Is All About Image

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Rose English, Rose on Horseback with Tail, 1974. Copyright The Artist. Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery.

The Subversive Seven: The Feminist Artists Challenging How We Look at Sex

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Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party Taught Me to Take Cooking and Eating Seriously

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Andy Sweet, Camp Mountain Lake, Summer 1977, from Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah

Relive Your Awkward Adolescent Years with This Wry Ode to Summer Camps

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Protest symbols

The Real Meanings Behind Six Symbols of Protest

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In almost every picture, Erik Kessels

This Humble Sofa Witnessed One Couple’s Enduring Eroticism

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Celebrating Crazy Hotel Carpet Design Around the World

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A Cultural Journey Through Two Millennia in This Bombed-Out Church

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Wayne Rabbit Bartholomew, Ke Iki Road, Oahu, Hawaii 1976 – Photo c. Jeff Divine

Getting Wavey: The Gnarly Story of the Seventies Surf Scene

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Need Some Air? Take a Stroll with These Walking Artists

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Image from Memory © Bernadette Mayer, 1971, courtesy of the Bernadette Mayer Papers, Special Collections & Archives, University of Caliornia, San Diego   

Bernadette Mayer Predicted Our Obsession with Self Documentation

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Susan Hiller’s Dream Mapping Awoke Me From the Solitary Terror of My Nightmares

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These Retro and Midcentury Art Supplies Reveal the Whims of Modern Taste

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Beautiful Losers (2008), promo image

Probably the Only List of Artist Films You’ll Ever Need

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For Mickalene Thomas, Success Is About Elevating Others

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Is There an Ideal Age to Be an Artist?

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Why We Need to Foreground the African Female Gaze

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Photographic portrait of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, by Carl Abrahamsson, 2018

Art as Life: Remembering the Flawed But Pioneering Genesis P-Orridge

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Why Are We So Sentimental About Photographs of Our Mothers?

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The Real Reason We’re All Posting Old Photographs of Our Mothers

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