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Judy Chicago’s Herstory: The art and artifice of girlbossing

Judy Chicago, “Birth Trinity: Needlepoint One, from the Birth Project” “Judy Chicago: Herstory,” 2023. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Courtesy New Museum. Photo: Dario Lasagni

Well-behaved women rarely make history, but they do get DIOR sponsorships. The New Museum is now displaying “Judy Chicago: Herstory,” an exhibition that spans the sixty-year career of…

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Illustration by HMAC

Sunday Comics by HMAC is The New School Free Press’ weekly comic, where our creative artists encapsulate relatable interactions, humor and, day-to-day life.

New School professor wins $50,000 Whiting Award

Anaïs Duplan received a Whiting Award at the New York Historical Society on April 6. He was honored with the award for his nonfiction book “Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture.” Illustration by Camila Giraldo

Anaïs Duplan is among many other established and up-and-coming writers that have been honored with the prestigious award. A former New School professor and celebrated poet was one…

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BIPOC Artists and Students Form an Art-Focused Home in Brooklyn

Yetunde Sapp and Yasmine Barboza painting on clothing and making prints that they will sell at a Black business fair at the end of the week. Photo by Elia Griffin.

This August, in the midst of the global pandemic, third-year BA/BFA fashion design and liberal arts student Yetunde Sapp, and her roommate, Rashad Heagle, decided to transform their…

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