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Post-Truth Culture Lab Detroit Announces 2017 Program Hilton Als, Edgar Arcenaux, Mel Chin, Coco Fusco, Leong Leong, and Martine Syms in conversation.   Woods Cathedral, Detroit Courtesy of JTG Detroit Project  ( Detroit, MI — July 12, 2017 ) Now in its fifth year,  Culture Lab Detroit ’s panel discussion series returns in 2017 to engage internationally reputed artists, architects, and theorists on the theme of  Post-Truth . The Oxford English Dictionary chose  Post-Truth  as its 2016 word of the year, key to a time when “...objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Though central to contemporary politics, the negotiation between objective facts and emotion, personal belief, and individual experience has long been the terrain of artmaking. This year’s Culture Lab Detroit will explore how the subjective and objective interact today, and how art can help us navigate a world of con

Jeff Wall – "An Impossible Photograph," a film by Art21 Summer of Shorts : Ten New Films  in Ten Weeks Premiering on Art21.org every Friday through  August 4 Art21  premieres its fifth film from its  Summer of Shorts ,  a dynamic ten-week roll-out of exclusive new short films documenting the life and work of the most compelling contemporary artists working today:  Meriem Bennani, Jordan Casteel, Stan Douglas, Theaster Gates, Liz Larner, Aki Sasamoto, Avery Singer, Jeff Wall, Chris Ware,  and  Caroline Woolard. Summer of Shorts  continues today with a new film from Art21's  Extended Play  series featuring artist  Jeff Wall. WATCH ART21'S LATEST FILM:   Jeff Wall – "An Impossible Photograph" Through  August 4 , a new film will premiere at  noon  every Friday on  Art21.org  as well as on the  Art21 YouTube channel . In his Vancouver studio, artist Jeff Wall reluctantly discusses why and how he created his 2

Meriem Bennani's Exploded Visions, a film by Art21 Summer of Shorts : Ten New Films  in Ten Weeks Premiering on Art21.org every Friday through  August 4 Art21  premieres its fourth film from its  Summer of Shorts ,  a dynamic ten-week roll-out of exclusive new short films documenting the life and work of the most compelling contemporary artists working today:  Meriem Bennani, Jordan Casteel, Stan Douglas, Theaster Gates, Liz Larner, Aki Sasamoto, Avery Singer, Jeff Wall, Chris Ware,  and  Caroline Woolard. Summer of Shorts  continues today with a new film from Art21's  New York Close Up  series featuring artist  Meriem Bennani . WATCH ART21'S LATEST FILM:   Meriem Bennani's Exploded Visions Through  August 4 , a new film will premiere at  noon  every Friday on  Art21.org  as well as on the  Art21 YouTube channel . Can art be funny and serious at the same time? Using social media-inspired effects, video artis

Rental Gallery Presents Color People Curated by Rashid Johnson July 1 - July 25, 2017 Bob Thompson,  The Golden Ass , 1963, Oil on canvas, 62 1/2 x 74 1/2 inches / 158.8 x 189.2 cm;  Courtesy of the artist and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Opening Reception: Saturday, July 1st ,  6-8 PM Rental Gallery 87 Newtown Lane East Hampton, NY   Rental Gallery  is pleased to announce  Color People , an exhibition curated by artist  Rashid Johnson , opening on  July 1st  in East Hampton: Color People is an exhibition I've long considered organizing. It's born of a twenty-year obsession with the work of the artist Bob Thompson. The artists included are a wide range of painters whose works perform differently but with a shared radicality in their employment and understanding of color.  This exhibition doesn't speak to a time or place. The relationships formed here between works are often opaque and intentionally diverse. Some of these artists are heroes o