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This week, new Amtrak trains, the cult of wellness, a picture-hanging hack, asylum-seekers navigate NYC, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
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This week, Godard's anti-imperialism, in defense of "bad" curating, an inexplicable statue, criminalizing culture wars, and more.
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We Asked AI to Re-Imagine 5 Blue-Chip Art Exhibitions
I inserted the text from five press releases into DALL-E and this is what it churned out.
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This week, a Keith Haring drawing from his bedroom, reflecting on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, you're not descended from Vikings, the death of cursive, and more
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This week, fictional characters with student debt, a Gen X guide to Web3, landlord rent increases, neoliberals and Salman Rushdie, money and happiness, and more.
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Welcome to the Dustbin of History
Jake Scharbach's paintings dump on some iconic portraits as a way to highlight the crisis we're living through.
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A Robot Dog Is Painting Self-Portraits at the 2022 Spring Break Art Fair
There's an artist currently showing in Midtown Manhattan who is teaching a machine to paint.
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This week, drone photo awards, uncovering unverified Indigenous identity, vacationing in the Metaverse, the beauty industrial complex, and more.
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The Vulnerable Painterly Worlds of Katherine Bradford
In Bradford’s color-infused world of superheroes and swimmers, viewers and her figures bathe together outside of time and space.
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This week, new photos of Jupiter, film audiences and critics disagree, Andrew Wyeth's funerary drawings, Diva Kid meme reborn, and more.
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This week, an architect designs his own home, unraveling the white supremacy of archives, pigeons in New York City, being "Asian" in the United States, apologizing to Sacheen Littlefeather, and more.
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This week, award-winning nature photography, reviewing Jared Kushner's new book, Smithsonian NMAAHC hires a new digital curator, Damien Hirst plans to burn paintings, and more.