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Cady Noland’s Bluewald (1989) sold at Christie’s New York this year for close to $9.8 million—a record for an American artist. Curious who the “top 10 most expensive living female artists of 2015” are? Click here. Additionally, “In 2016, all of the solo shows at SculptureCenter in Queens, New York, will be by women.

Bluewald (1989)

Bluewald (1989)

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Claudia Rankine profiled tennis star Serena Williams for the New York Times: “For black people, there is an unspoken script that demands the humble absorption of racist assaults, no matter the scale, because whites need to believe that it’s no big deal. But Serena refuses to keep to that script…. She shows us her joy, her humor and, yes, her rage. She gives us the whole range of what it is to be human, and there are those who can’t bear it, who can’t tolerate the humanity of an ordinary extraordinary person.”

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