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Aboriginal Women in Australia Celebrate Their Football Heroes with Pottery
MELBOURNE — The desert of Central Australia might seem like an unlikely place to find an art cooperative making potent and beautiful pottery.
Melissa Stern
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A New Municipal Gallery in San Francisco Keeps Its Focus on the Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO — The 1960s upset the status quo in nearly all realms of American life. The decade issued radical ways of thinking about, making, performing, and exhibiting art, and San Francisco was at the vanguard.
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At Harlem’s First Children’s Museum, Artworks Strike Up Conversations
In October 2015 the first children’s museum in Harlem opened its doors.
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The Vast Possibilities of Tiny Collage and Assemblage
You might want to bring your reading glasses to The Tiny Picture Show at Pavel Zoubok Gallery, because some of the suckers on view are really tiny.
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The Calmer, Contemplative Mood of Francis Bacon’s Late Paintings
Over the past several years the Gagosian Gallery in New York City has mounted shows described as “museum quality.”
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Something Old, Something New: An Exhibition Weds Technologies of Yesterday and Today
Walking into Central Booking on Ludlow Street is a little like entering a full-sized wunderkabinett.
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From Jell-O Shots to Money Scams, an Artist’s Account of Suing Her Gallery
The triple order of lime, pineapple, and cherry Jell-O should have been a tip-off.
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The Psychological Depth of Jim Shaw’s Pop Culture Dreamscapes
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — There’s a big, funny, emotional, and political exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).
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The Raw and Stylish Designs of 20th-Century American Protest Posters
Three uptown cultural institutions in New York City this summer have had significant exhibitions devoted to the history of art and social activism. Taken together, they paint an arresting portrait of the role of artists in affecting social change.
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Painterly Surfaces on Canvases of Clay
Viola Frey, a powerful woman and rule-busting artist, has not been given enough credit for the ways in which she changed the game for artists working in clay.
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A Three-Year Cinematic Journey Across 25 Countries at the Jewish Museum
Tucked away in a corner of the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum is a little movie theater that transports you far away from the artifacts of Jewish history in the surrounding galleries.
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El Anatsui Goes to School
KINDERHOOK, NY — “The School,” Jack Shainman’s splendid gallery in Kinderhook, NY, is about to blow its own roof off.