Absorbing Art

Discussion

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Aristodimos Kaldis immigrated to America from Greece and became a painter, lecturer, and left-wing activist in New York City. Absorbing Art shows a Black man sitting on a bench in what appears to be an art gallery or museum. The paintings on the walls behind him—a medieval religious panel and a modern abstraction—seem to reflect Kaldis's interest in the making connections between disparate cultural traditions.

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