Controversy Strikes Over Ownership of the Lesbian Avengers Logo

Good morning. 🌤️ Today, how an 18th-century French portrait broke new ground, injecting Black feminis

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Good morning. 🌤️Today, how an 18th-century French portrait broke new ground, injecting Black feminist ideas in arts education, and a t-shirt with the Lesbian Avengers logo is being sold at GAP and some former members aren’t happy.— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

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Who Owns the Logo of the Lesbian Avengers, Decades Later? After Gap released a shirt with the group’s 1990s logo, a controversy revealed complex questions about the visual language of activism. Valentina Di Liscia

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Why Adélaïde Labille-Guiard’s 1783 "Portrait of a Mother Nursing" Broke New Ground When Labille-Guiard exhibited the portrait at the Paris Salon, it was the only woman in the series. And she was breastfeeding. Karen Chernick

In Intricate Weavings, Igshaan Adams Maps South Africa’s Tangled Histories Adams’s weavings are the kind that demand to be stood directly in front of, for you to hunker down on your knees, or crane your neck at all angles. Gwen Burlington

Hunter MFA Grads Mull the Fluid Nature of Time Presented online and in-person, “We Were Already Gone” brings together 26 graduates. Here are our highlights. Billy Anania

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