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Lorna Simpson (born 1960) came to prominence in the early 1990s for her pioneering approach to conceptual photography. For more than four decades, she has mined magazines and archives for photographs and texts, then reconfigured these materials to question their objectivity and grant them new meanings.
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An expression of artist Dindga McCannon’s love for Black American women, Revolutionary Sister (1971) was a response to the absence of depictions of women fighting for Black empowerment in the 1960s and 1970s.
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In her most recent paintings, Amy Sherald has responded directly to the  increasing threats, violence, and legislation against gay, transgender, and gender-nonconforming people across the United States. This work, Trans Forming Liberty (2024) recasts the Statue of Liberty as a non-binary trans-femme person, radically redefining this iconic symbol of American freedom, and suggesting that the ideal of acceptance inscribed on the sculpture – “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” from Emma Lazarus’s poem The New Colossus (1883) – be applied unequivocally to all citizens, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, or other identifiers.
Photographed in the Whitney Museum in New York.Â
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Step aside, basic beach Ken — there’s a new MVP in Barbie Land, and he’s not just here to play ball. He’s here to change the game. Meet the Mattel Creations LeBron James Ken Doll, the first ever Kenbassador (yes, it exists ).LeBron isn’t just Ken — he’s the Ken.
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