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Discover the world of art in a fun and easy way. Explore and learn about some of the most famous works from the Gallery's collection, make your own art, and share it with friends. The NGAkids Art Zone app for iPad lets you explore your inner artist.

Description

The NGAkids Art Zone app has eight interactive activities inspired by works in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, plus a sketchbook for freehand drawing and a personal exhibition space where users can save and display art created with the program. The child-friendly interface, easy-to-use tools, and the overarching emphasis on discovery, careful looking, and artistic self-expression make the NGAkids app educational and fun for the whole family.

NGAkids activities are designed for children to use-unassisted-in a recreational, nonacademic context. They are not art lessons, although our programs are extremely popular in schools and are often used as an adjunct to the traditional curriculum. The low-key activities preserve a sense of quiet exploration that encourages artistic expression and creativity. This absorbing, self-directed interaction has a long-term impact. The fact that children are encouraged to figure out how things work and to mentor each other adds a unique dimension to the experience, one that sparks a personal connection to art that often lasts a lifetime.

If you share artistic creations made with our app on social media, please be sure to include the hashtag #ngakids. We look forward to seeing what you make!

Don't have an iPad? Email [email protected] for the PC version of these interactives.

Special Features

The NGAkids app provides an immersive experience as children visit a virtual art museum and explore a variety of works spanning more than 300 years of art history. High-resolution graphics, careful attention to detail, and exposure to a variety of subjects, painting styles, and techniques help convey an authentic understanding of the artistic process and reinforce their familiarity with the fundamental elements of art. Although not games in the traditional sense, unexpected animation and audio features enliven the programs and help make learning fun.

There are 10 sections to explore:

* Portrait
* Landscape
* Seascape
* Still Life
* Action Painting
* Exploring Color
* Color Field
* Collage
* Sketchbook
* My Art Gallery

Works of art by a wide range of artists-including Edward Hicks, Fitz Henry Lane, Berthe Morisot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Mark Rothko, Josef Albers, and Robert Rauschenberg, along with several anonymous American naive painters-serve as inspirational models.

The National Gallery of Art is committed to producing quality children's programming that provides informative, entertaining, and age-appropriate content for kids of all ages. We hope you and your children enjoy the NGAkids app, and we invite you to plan an in-person visit to the Gallery, where many of the original works of art that inspired this program are on display.

NGAkids is supported in part by a generous grant from the Ruth S. Willoughby Foundation. Apple, the Apple logo, and iPad are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc.
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Discover the world of art in a fun and easy way. Explore and learn about some of the most famous works from the Gallery's collection, make your own art, and share it with friends. The NGAkids Art Zone app for iPad lets you explore your inner artist.

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lesson plans based around the art of Holocaust survivor Esther Nisenthal Krinitz

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Bringing the art and story of Holocaust survivor Esther Nisenthal Krinitz to life through exhibits, community workshops, and lesson plans for grades 5-12.

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One of the key requirements of the Common Core State Standards for Reading is that all students must be able to comprehend texts of steadily increasing complexity as they progress through school. To better serve teachers who are looking for text exemplars, we've collected the poems on our site that are listed in CCSS for ELA: Appendix B.

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Common Core State Standards Text Exemplars | Poetry Foundation

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One of the key requirements of the Common Core State Standards for Reading is that all students must be able to comprehend texts of steadily increasing complexity as they progress through school. To better serve teachers who are looking for text exemplars, we've collected the poems on our site that are listed in CCSS for ELA: Appendix B.

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educator resource guides - but don't forget to check out all of the amazing resources on this site in general under "Explore" and "Learn"

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The MoAD Education Department prepares Educator Resource Guides to accompany each of our Exhibitions. Our Resource Guides are interdisciplinary and written to align with California State Common Core Standards for grades 3 through 12. Each Resource Guide contains artist background information, lesson plans, and hands-on activities to help students gain a deeper understanding of the artworks featured in each exhibition.

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Educator Resource Guides - MoAD Museum of African Diaspora

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The MoAD Education Department prepares Educator Resource Guides to accompany each of our Exhibitions. Our Resource Guides are interdisciplinary and written to align with California State Common Core Standards for grades 3 through 12. Each Resource Guide contains artist background information, lesson plans, and hands-on activities to help students gain a deeper understanding of the artworks featured in each exhibition.

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Free Tools | Partners for Youth Empowerment

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Activities, games, songs, and other free resources for teachers and community leaders to develop creativity and self confidence in youth.

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Facilitated discussion activities guide

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The following seven World Café design principles are an integrated set of ideas and practices that form the basis of the pattern embodied in the World Café process (see also the Wiser Together guiding principles for more about the World Cafe's DNA)

1) Set the Context
Pay attention to the reason you are bringing people together, and what you want to achieve. Knowing the purpose and parameters of your meeting enables you to consider and choose the most important elements to realize your goals: e.g. who should be part of the conversation, what themes or questions will be most pertinent, what sorts of harvest will be more useful, etc..

2) Create Hospitable Space
Café hosts around the world emphasize the power and importance of creating a hospitable space-one that feels safe and inviting. When people feel comfortable to be themselves, they do their most creative thinking, speaking, and listening. In particular, consider how your invitation and your physical set-up contribute to creating a welcoming atmosphere.

3) Explore Questions that Matter
Knowledge emerges in response to compelling questions. Find questions that are relevant to the real-life concerns of the group. Powerful questions that "travel well" help attract collective energy, insight, and action as they move throughout a system. Depending on the timeframe available and your objectives, your Café may explore a single question or use a progressively deeper line of inquiry through several conversational rounds.

4) Encourage Everyone's Contribution
As leaders we are increasingly aware of the importance of participation, but most people don't only want to participate, they want to actively contribute to making a difference. It is important to encourage everyone in your meeting to contribute their ideas and perspectives, while also allowing anyone who wants to participate by simply listening to do so.

5) Connect Diverse Perspectives
The opportunity to move between tables, meet new people, actively contribute your thinking, and link the essence of your discoveries to ever-widening circles of thought is one of the distinguishing characteristics of the Café. As participants carry key ideas or themes to new tables, they exchange perspectives, greatly enriching the possibility for surprising new insights.

6) Listen together for Patterns and Insights
Listening is a gift we give to one another. The quality of our listening is perhaps the most important factor determining the success of a Café. Through practicing shared listening and paying attention to themes, patterns and insights, we begin to sense a connection to the larger whole. Encourage people to listen for what is not being spoken along with what is being shared.

7) Share Collective Discoveries
Conversations held at one table reflect a pattern of wholeness that connects with the conversations at the other tables. The last phase of the Café, often called the "harvest", involves making this pattern of wholeness visible to everyone in a large group conversation. Invite a few minutes of silent reflection on the patterns, themes and deeper questions experienced in the small group conversations and call them out to share with the larger group. Make sure you have a way to capture the harvest - working with a graphic recorder is recommended.

For a more in-depth look at the World Café design principles, see the World Café book.

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pictures and essays of art from all over the world throughout time

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The Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

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The Met's Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies and tells the story of art and global culture through the collection.

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While it's hard to beat the experience of seeing a seminal piece of fine art or important historical artifact with your own two eyes, you could easily spend a lifetime traveling the world in search of all of them. Fortunately, the digital age has made it possible-easy, even-to visit some of the world's most famous museums from the comfort of your own home. Here are a dozen of them.

The Louvre is not only one of the world's largest art museums, but it's also one of Paris's most iconic historic monuments. The museum offers free online tours of some of its most important and popular exhibits, such as its Egyptian Antiquities and works from Michelangelo. You can take a 360-degree look at the museum, and click around the rare artifacts to get additional information on their histories.

While the architecture of the Guggenheim's building itself, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is quite impressive, you don't have to visit the Big Apple to get an up-close view of some of the priceless pieces of artwork inside. The museum makes some of its collections and exhibits available online for people who want to get a taste of what the museum has to offer, including works from Franz Marc, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, and Jeff Koons.

Founded in 1937, the National Gallery of Art is free and open to the general public. For those who aren't in Washington, D.C., it also provides virtual tours of its gallery and exhibits. You can view its current exhibitions and listen to audio and video recordings of past lectures online.
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With a collection that totals more than 8 million objects, London's British Museum makes some of its pieces viewable online. The museum also teamed up with the Google Cultural Institute to offer virtual tours using Google Street View technology.

Washington, D.C.'s National Museum of Natural History, one of the most-visited museums in the world, offers a peek at its wonderful treasures with an online virtual tour of the entire grounds. Viewers are welcomed into its rotunda and are greeted with a comprehensive room-by-room, 360-degree walking tour of all its exceptional exhibits, including the Hall of Mammals, Insect Zoo, and Dinosaurs and Hall of Paleobiology.

The Met is home to over 2 million works of fine art, but you don't have to be in New York City to enjoy them. The institution's website features an online collection and virtual tours of some of its most impressive pieces, including works from Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, and Giotto di Bondone. In addition, The Met also works with the Google Cultural Institute to make even more artwork (that's not featured in its own online collection) available for view.

Located in the town of Figueres in Catalonia, Spain, the Dalí Theatre-Museum is completely dedicated to the artwork of Salvador Dalí. It features many rooms and exhibits surrounding every era of Dalí's life and career, and the artist himself is buried here. The museum offers virtual tours of the grounds and a few exhibits.

NASA offers free virtual tours of the Langley Research Center in Virginia, as well as of Ohio's Glenn Research Center. The Space Center Houston also has an app that provides virtual tours, augmented reality experiences, and videos and audio stories about space exploration.

The Vatican Museums feature an extensive collection of important art and classical sculptures curated by the Popes over many centuries. You can take a virtual tour of the museum grounds and iconic exhibits, including Michelangelo's ceiling in the Sistine Chapel.

The mission statement of the National Women's History Museum in Alexandria, Virginia, is to educate, inspire, empower, and shape the future "by integrating women's distinctive history and culture in the United States." Part of that mission is delivered through well-curated online exhibits and oral histories.

As its name suggests, the National Museum of the United States Air Force is the official museum of the United States Air Force. Centered on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, it houses a wide array of military weapons and aircraft, including the presidential airplanes of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon. The museum also offers free virtual tours of its entire grounds, letting you glimpse objects like decommissioned aircraft from World War II, Vietnam, and the Korean War.

To help its users discover and view important artworks online in high resolution and detail, Google partnered with more than 1200 cultural institutions from around the world to archive and document priceless pieces of art and to provide virtual tours of museums using Google Street View technology. The Google Art Project features fine art from the White House, the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar, and even São Paulo street art from Brazil. Here's a complete list of museums you can visit virtually.

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In December, The New York Times invited noted writers, actors and public figures to share their favorite poems, reaching out to people like Ta-Nehisi Coates, Elena Ferrante Tavi Gevinson, Lena Dunham and Junot Díaz, among others.

After reading the published list, Tabia Alexine, a Los Angeles-based curator and creative, was disappointed. "It was a compelling group, but not as diverse and intersectionally colorful as I'd hoped," she explained to The Huffington Post. Soon after, Alexine embarked on a project of her own, reaching out to young writers of color she admired to bring the original list the multiplicity both readers and writers deserve.

Alexine collected the perspectives of 20 new voices, each explaining the power of a single poem. "The responses reflect a spectrum of experience among the writers," she explained. "But I did notice that several poems discussed discovery, social justice, and resistance through existence and survival."

Looking forward, Alexine hopes future articles in outlets like The New York Times will represent a wider range of backgrounds and perspectives. And that the cultural landscape at large will follow suit. "I hope to see poetry and art by talented persons of color more widely distributed via TV, film, in commercials, at events, galleries, and conferences," she continued. "I love seeing books like The Breakbeat Poets sold at major retailer, Barnes & Noble. I also believe performance poets and writers deserve increased honorariums for their work. I want to be a catalyst, pushing all of those things forward."

Right in time for Black History Month, Alexine's diversified anthology speaks to the importance of poetry to voices too often marginalized or silenced. "It can be such a powerful platformfor truth-telling, disruption, affirmation, and empathy," she said. "The vulnerability and realness I've witnessed within the poetry world is unlike any other medium in my mind. These 20 individuals are unapologetically taking up space and making noise as writers, activists, performers, educators, literary editors, students, and so much more."

Learn about their favorite poems, and the stories behind them:

1. Jamila Woods

"I recently discovered Audre Lorde's poetry collection, The Black Unicorn, on a friend's bookshelf. ' A Woman Speaks' struck me because of the economy of language and her unapologetic declaration of her power as a black woman. I love the lines: 'moon marked and touched by sun / my magic is unwritten' and, 'beware my smile / I am treacherous with old magic and the noon's new fury.'

"To me this poem is a mantra and an affirmation. Black girl magic is not a new phenomenon. Audre Lorde's poem gives me permission to own my magic and inspires me to constantly search for new language to describe it."

Jamila Woods is a singer and poet based in Chicago. She is Associate Artistic Director of Young Chicago Authors and member of the Dark Noise Collective.

2. Fatimah Asghar

"I've read 'Delores Jepps' by Tim Seibles every single day since the new year has started. I love Tim's work in general: his playful narrative explorations, his love songs to the world, his persona poems. He's such a versatile and splendid writer. This poem is my favorite in the collection Fast Animal. It's such a sweet memory of infatuation and the innocence in it is such a delight: 'she'd be standing soaked / in schoolday morning light' and 'the gloss on her lips sighed / kiss me and you'll never / do homework again.'

"I love the way that Tim explores these wonderfully simple moments, the loneliness of youth and how a teenage heart full of love and longing can sometimes be enough to serve as protection from the cruelty of the world."

Fatimah Asghar is a poet based in Chicago, and a member of the Dark Noise Collective. Her chapbook, "After," was published by YesYes Books in the fall of 2015.

3. Camonghne Felix

"This poem allows me to feel joy and happiness while still confronting the violence of rape. Instead of reflecting on the pain of the assault and the person who hurt me, I reflect on the first time I willingly gave myself to someone. I reflect on how loved, protected and beautiful I feel every time I am with my current partner. It reminds me that, though the assault may have left my dignity compromised, it wasn't stolen. My body is still mine. The choice is still mine. And I am nobody's victim, especially because I survived. 'God bless the girl who goes back for her body.'"

4. Alok Vaid Menon

"In a cultural moment when trans narratives are only invited to the table when we are inspirational and resilient, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza creates a space for us to be trans and angry, trans and sad, trans and hurt. I think her work is so politically important this poem in particular is striking to me with how unapologetic it is, with how powerful the vision is of a world where transness is just accepted simply for being, not just for doing."

Alok Vaid Menon is a South Asian trans femme performance artist and one half of the performance art duo DarkMatter.

5. Joshua Bennett

"Oh, and 'I know this isn't much. / But I wanted to explain this life to you, even if / I had to become, over the years, someone else to do it.' is one of my favorite passages of text in the English language. Those are lines to live by, for sure."

6. Jacqui Germain

7. Janani Balasubramanian

"As a sci-fi/speculative fiction writer, I often think about the linkages between racialized histories and the arc of major sci-fi narratives. Why is Jennifer Lawrence the star of 'Hunger Games'? Beats me. My favorite poem isn't quite a poem, but it is 'poetic' and those boundaries don't make sense anyway since we're all just trying to whisper truths into an unforgiving, acheful universe. So here's a 'poetic quote' from one of my favorite nerds, Junot Diaz:

Look, without our stories, without the true nature and reality of who we are as People of Color, nothing about fanboy or fangirl culture would make sense. What I mean by that is: if it wasn't for race, X-Men doesn't sense. If it wasn't for the history of breeding human beings in the New World through chattel slavery, Dune doesn't make sense. If it wasn't for the history of colonialism and imperialism, Star Wars doesn't make sense. If it wasn't for the extermination of so many Indigenous First Nations, most of what we call science fiction's contact stories doesn't make sense. Without us as the secret sauce, none of this works, and it is about time that we understood that we are the Force that holds the Star Wars universe together. We're the Prime Directive that makes Star Trek possible, yeah. In the Green Lantern Corps, we are the oath. We are all of these things -- erased, and yet without us -- we are essential.

"I really believe in us: the nerds and the dreamers and the aliens and the bacteria not quite of this world. And I return to this pithy quote quite often while trudging through the unglamorous and lonely act of noveling (setting empathy to page). We have so much imagining to do."

Janani Balasubramanian is an artist, nerd, and one half of the performance art duo DarkMatter.

8. Joshua Aiken

Joshua Aiken is a poet and playwright whose work has been featured in publications such as the Winter Tangerine Review, Assaracus, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by cahoodaloodaling. Selected as a Rhodes Scholar, he is currently a graduate student at the University of Oxford.

9. Danez Smith

Danez Smith is the author of Don't Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press, 2017) and [insert] Boy (YesYes Books, 2014), winner of the Lambda Literary Award. They have been featured widely including on Buzzfeed, Blavity & in Poetry Magazine and are a member of the Dark Noise Collective.

10. Safia Elhillo

"This introduces us to the violence that blue can also contain, that is not immediately associated with it but is just as much a part of it as a smooth sheet of lake or ocean with troubled waters just underneath. Everything in its world seems born of this single 'blue vein / that rides,' and one need not actively pursue it because it will be there, as it has always been there."

11. Nate Marshall

"One of my favorite poems of all time is Martin Espada's joint 'Imagine the Angels of Bread.' I came across it in high school and I've never been able to shake it. This poem speaks so powerfully about the possibility of a new kind of justice beginning today. I find a lot of poetry that speaks to social issues is either pessimistic, angry, or depressing and this poem always reminds me that the role of the artist is, in part, to imagine the next world of expanded freedom."

Nate Marshall is the author of Wild Hundreds and editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of HipHop. He is also a member of the Dark Noise Collective.

12. Janae Johnson

Janae Johnson is a spoken word poet, teaching artist, educator and co-founder of The House Slam poetry venue in Boston. She is the 2015 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion and 2015 National Poetry Slam Champion.

13. Hieu Minh Nguyen

"Out of all my favorite poems, I return most to Jason Shinder's 'Untitled.' I am constantly in awe of its tenderness. It's the last poem in his last book, Stupid Hope (published posthumously), and every time I finish the last couplet, 'Let me / Let me keep on describing things to be sure they happened.' my face becomes a hole."

14. Franny Choi

Franny Choi is a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellow, a Project VOICE teaching artist, a member of the Dark Noise Collective, and the author of Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing).

15. Porsha O.

"I believe in poetic monologues. I believe in narrative. I believe in the use of vulgarity to disrupt conventional language. In 'Rhonda, Age 15 Emergency Room,' I think what I believe in most is Letta Neely 's highlighting of intersectionality. Rhonda, the narrator is a teenaged person, a poor person, Black, a woman, queer, and an academically at risk student who is also a victim of the prison industrial complex. This poem completely tears at my heart with its blunt and consistent oppression while simultaneously giving me hope as a poor Black lesbian, who spends much of her time with young folk who walk through the world with so many things to carry.

"I have no choice but to believe in Rhonda's potential because it is directly tied to my own. I know that even after the poem is over, Rhonda is alive, in an emergency room, narrating her story, and still actively waking up to survive everyday, in what I imagine to be, the most revolutionary of ways."

Porsha O. is the 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion, the 2015 National Poetry Slam Champion, and the co-founder of House Slam. She identifies as a Black, poet, dykegoddess, a hiphop feminist, an educator, and an organizer.

16. Carvens Lissaint

Carvens Lissaint is an international award-winning poet and currently a MFA candidate at NYU Tisch School of The Arts Graduate Acting Program.

17. Aziza Barnes

Aziza Barnes is blk & alive. Born in Los Angeles Aziza currently lives in Oxford, Mississippi. Aziza's is the author of i be but i ain't (Yes Yes Books, 2015) and me Aunt Jemima and the nailgun published from Button Poetry. Aziza is a member of The Dance Cartel and the divine fabrics collective.

18. Malcolm London

"I was in classes with kids wealthier than me and though I loved them, I envied them and this poem told me it was natural to want to have. That wanting to not be stopped by police on my way home, to want to not see my mom and pops struggle just to keep a roof over their heads, to want to be able to afford college, to want to have money to go out to off-campus lunch with my friends, to ask why can't we live in a world where all kids in Chicago can have access to all the things my more wealthier white double honors classmates had. This poem, incredible in the way it humanizes people, both well off and not so, empowered me to start asking the right questions."

Called the Gil Scott-Heron of his generation by Cornel West, Malcolm London is an internationally recognized Chicago poet, organizer, performer and educator. London, who is mostly known for declining modeling opportunities to dedicate his life to art education and activism, is currently working on releasing two anticipated art projects in 2016.

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20. Yosimar Reyes

"Being raised by women, gender dynamics of labor were evident in our Latino household, but here was Cisneros writing about a quiet revolution, one where a young girl made the choice to live a life free of cultural expectations. As a queer feminine latino boy, this helped me imagine a world where my Latino culture did not limit me but one where I could embrace the good and leave what did not seem appropriate to me."

Yosimar Reyes is a nationally acclaimed poet, educator, performance artist and public speaker. Born in Guerrero, Mexico, and raised in Eastside San Jose, Calif.k Reyes holds a B.A. in creative writing and is an Arts Fellow at Define American, an organization founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas.

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An independent non-profit that documents the multiple recent histories of art in Asia, with a valuable collection about art available from its website and onsite library.

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REORIENT - Middle Eastern Arts and Culture Magazine

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The bespectacled Haerizadeh brother is as wacky and irreverent as ever in his latest solo show
The legs of the acrylic wooden console table that Ramin Haerizadeh has stuck to the canvas of We Choose To Go To The Moon still bear the price tags from the local hardware store from which it was bought. The distinctive font of a local newspaper (in English) can be identified beneath layers of collaged images, and, in the background, familiar architecture from the Persian Gulf region is just about discernible behind what is ostensibly a war-torn landscape made from cut, pasted, and manipulated photographs of bombed-out buildings. But these visual clues are a minor diversion; they are a kind of wink to viewers in Dubai, where Haerizadeh's exhibition opened on September 13, as if to remind them that the artist a 'local'.

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REORIENT - Middle Eastern Arts and Culture Magazine

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The bespectacled Haerizadeh brother is as wacky and irreverent as ever in his latest solo show The legs of the acrylic wooden console table that Ramin Haerizadeh has stuck to the canvas of We Choose To Go To The Moon still bear the price tags from the local hardware store from which it was bought.

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Groundbreaking Latinx artists who aren't Frida Kahlo

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Groundbreaking Latinx artists who aren't Frida Kahlo

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With over 116 women artists in one show, a new exhibition shines a light on the underrepresented contributions of Latin artists

"I don't give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born fucked. But I was happy in my way. You did not understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an alcoholic, I am tenacious. I am; simply I am," Frida Kahlo wrote in a letter to her husband, artist Diego Rivera.

The Mexican artist, who faithfully painted self-portraits throughout the course of her life, has become not only one the most famous artists in the world, but is very often the only Latin American women artist most people know by name. The invisibility of her comrades can be attributed to the power structures within the art world that disregarded the major contributions that women from 20 countries have been making to the art world throughout the twentieth century.

Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, a new exhibition on view at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, is a major step towards setting the record straight with more than 260 works by 116 women artists now on view through December 31, 2017. Curated by Dr. Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Dr. Andrea Giunta, Radical Women is a watershed moment in the art world, illustrating the power of intersectionality in the new millennium.

Six years in the making, Radical Women brings together women from across Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the United States, showcasing the works of pioneers making art on their own terms, including Brazilian art star Lygia Pape, who had a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art earlier this year; visionary Venezuelan Pop artist Marisol, who died at the age of 83 in 2016; and the gender-bending self-portraiture of Cuban American performance artist Ana Mendieta, whose husband was found not guilty of her murder in 1985.

The exhibition, which is accompanied by a catalogue of the same name, published by Prestel, is a brilliant introduction to both the artists and the issues they face as women in the Latin American diaspora, providing their own take on feminism, patriarchy, gender, sexuality, identity, and art history. We spotlight six artists you should know, who have inherited the mantle from the indomitable Frida Kahlo.

YOLANDA LOPEZ

Multimedia artist and activist Yolanda López was born in San Diego in 1942 and came of age during the 1960s at a time when the fight for Chicano rights was a major cause across California. As a third generational Mexican-American, this period was critical to her development as both an artist and a patriot. "I did not become aware of our own history until 1968 when there was a call for a strike at San Francisco State, a strike for ethnic studies," López told Shaping San Francisco in 2014, recalling her involvement in the famous student movement that shut down San Francisco State University. "I heard the men and women that led that Third World Strike speak and I understood at that point what my position was being part of this long legacy of the oppressed people, just like Black people."

With this knowledge, López developed an artistic practice that embraces the issues facing Latina women in everyday life, using a wide array of media to explore the social, political, and educational impact of domestic labour, and labour as a whole. Her work challenges the notions of high art and its exclusionary practices, producing traditional paintings, posters, and assemblages the use found materials, photocopies, and "Mexicana" objects drawn from popular culture. López has an extraordinary gift for transforming iconography so that it speaks to the present time, whether depicting an Aztec god crumpling immigration papers in a pose that evokes the army's "Uncle Sam Wants You" recruiting poster or casting herself, her mother, and her grandmother as the "Virgin of Guadalupe".

ISABEL CASTRO

Born in Mexico City in 1954, photographer, educator, journalist, and curator Isabel Castro grew up in Los Angeles. As an émigré in the city, coming of age during the height of the Chicano movement, Castro embraced the struggles of her people, honing in on the space where women have been oppressed and exploited within America. Her 1980 series, Women under Fire, addressed the horrific practice by the Los Angeles County USC Medical Center, which sterilised Chicana women during the 1960s and 1970s without informed consent and by coercive methods.

In the catalogue, art historian and curator Carla Stellweg observes, "Similarly, Castro's 'X Rated Bondage' from 1980 spotlights injustices to women, in this case condemning the sexual exploitation of women of Mexican American backgrounds. By rephotographing images from porn magazines, Castro recovered the anonymous women forced into various forms of sex work due to lack of opportunities."

GRACIELA CARNEVALE

Born in the town of Marcos Júarez in 1942 Argentine artist Graciela Carnevale moved to Rosario when she was a teenager. She graduated from the Escuela de Bellas Artes, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, in 1964 and has served on its faculty since 1985. In 1965 she became involved with Grupo de Arte de Vanguardia (GAV) de Rosario, a collective of experimental and established artists who acquired a reputation as one of the country's most dynamic avant-garde art groups. In 1968 GAV established Ciclo de Arte Experimental, a series of exhibitions organised every two weeks from May to October of that year.

For her presentation, Carnevale organised "Acción del encierro (Lock-up action)", a profound metaphor that explored the relationship between the collective, the individual, and the power of the state. Carnevale invited guests to an opening reception at an empty art gallery - then locked them inside for over an hour. The only means to break free required them to shatter the gallery windows, which had been covered with posters. "Acción" was intended to incite violence as well as underscore the growing social unrest under the military dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70), and also revealed how many were loathe to act in their own interest. Rather than breaking the glass from the inside, the incarcerated guests flagged down a passerby and had them do their dirty work, so to speak.

YOLANDA ANDRADE

In 1968, at the age of 18, Yolanda Andrade left her home in Villahermosa, Mexico, and moved to Mexico City to study theater. After becoming involved with Club Fotográfico de México, in 19784 Andrade changed her focus to photography and never looked back - finding all the world is a stage, to quote the Bard. As a street photographer par excellence, Andrade beautifully captures the drama and comedy of life around the world, be it in Mexico, Paris, or Calcutta. Wherever she goes, she sees the sensual and the surreal, the gritty and the glamorous, and the outright fantastical.

Describing her Mexico City work in 2002, Andrade revealed her work is made, "from a very personal point of view, to envision it as if I were making a visual diary, with my comments about politics, womanhood, machismo, religion, traditions, sexual mores, social attitudes, the imagination of the common person, high art and popular culture. It is not only the city of my daily life, the one I live in as a woman and as a professional photographer, but also the city of my imagination, the protagonists of works of fiction, the scenery where different stories happen at the same time."

SANDRA ELETA

Born in 1942, Panamanian artist came to New York to study at the International Center of Photography with the American photographers Ken Heyman and George Tice. After her time in New York, Eleta returned to Central America, first working in Costa Rica and then returning to her native land in 1974.

From 1977 to 1981 she documented the lives of people in Portobelo, on the Caribbean coast, creating the most significant series of work of her career. She earned the trust of her subjects, who let her into their daily lives and posed for her signature square format photographs, capturing a side of the nation that had been excluded from traditional forms of representation.

"Eleta is one of the many women artists from Panama who studied abroad and then returned to a country where there was much to be done. Thanks to her dedication to the medium of photography, her work explored the body from other perspectives," Rosina Cazal writes in the catalogue. "Eleta was the one who changed the way photography is perceived by focusing on its subjective and poetic power... Following intuition, Eleta focused on what appeared to be trivial moments in the domestic space... In a society whose very structure is marked by issues of race and class, this work begins to suggest the 'political' through a closer relationship between the artist and her subjects."

LETÍCIA PARENTE

Born in Salvador, Brazil, Letícia Parente (1930-1991) didn't begin her training as an artist until moving to Rio de Janeiro at the age of 41. A chemistry teacher by profession, Parente never abandoned her first career, no matter how much acclaim she received for her work as an artist.

In 1975, Parente created her first videos: "In (In), Preparação I (Preparation I)", and "Marca registrada (Trademark)", which showcased the themes she would focus on throughout her career: the body, subjectivity, and the female condition in a sexist culture. In "Marca registrada", her best-known piece, Parente embroiders the words "Made in Brasil" into her foot using a needle and black thread, calling into question the traditional roles assigned to women within the space of domestic activities.

In 1976, with the groundbreaking exhibition Medidas (Measurements) at the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Parente created the first exhibition in Brazil to combine science and art. Here, she played into the ego of the museum attendees, inviting them to use a series of scientific (or pseudoscientific) devices to assess their physical, intellectual, and emotional conditions. In doing so, Medidas (Measurements) exposed both the power and the limitations of scientific methods to assess, classify, and regulate individuals' bodies and subjectivities - a practice that still continues to possess a powerful and seemingly unbreakable hold over our imagination and our faith that science (as we know) is as good as truth.
Get to know more artists in Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 in the gallery below:

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Groundbreaking Latin artists who aren't Frida Kahlo

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"I don't give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born fucked. But I was happy in my way. You did not understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an alcoholic, I am tenacious.

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Why we all need to be challenged by 'Waves'

Waves is rare in its willingness to present a blurred marriage of volatility and sympathy without preaching or suggesting anything to the viewer. The movie itself crashes down on the audience like a wave, putting viewers in a state of constant unrest.

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Category: Arts and culture - Women's Media Center

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Why we all need to be challenged by 'Waves' Waves is rare in its willingness to present a blurred marriage of volatility and sympathy without preaching or suggesting anything to the viewer. The movie itself crashes down on the audience like a wave, putting viewers in a state of constant unrest.

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Ilina Mustafina is a New York-based artist, photographer, and architectural and fashion designer whose works have an organic, authentic and spontaneous focus. Her pieces are softly compelling, offering an innate understanding of light, colour, shadow and structure.

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Ilina Mustafina is a New York-based artist, photographer, and architectural and fashion designer whose works have an organic, authentic and spontaneous focus. Her pieces are softly compelling, offering an innate understanding of light, colour, shadow and structure.

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Established in 1962, Artforum delivers informed and inspired criticism and analyses concerning the latest developments in modern and contemporary art and culture, both in print and online.

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Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

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A frieze commissioned film: Artist Duggie Fields leads a tour of the home and studio in London's Earls Court that he's lived in for more than 50 years (and once shared with the musician and co-founder of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett)