There is nothing extraordinary about Murphy’s subjects and yet there is something inexplicably disturbing about her paintings and drawings.
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Giving Cameras to Kids as Tools of Self-Exploration
Participatory photography aims to counter the pitfalls of photography as an exploitative or voyeuristic medium.
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Required Reading
This week, a Frank Stella is installed as a public artwork in NYC, the women behind some iconic buildings, looting Cambodia, fighting anti-boycott laws, and more.
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Geometry in a State of Collapse
Westfall stays true to his love of planar geometry, while finding ways to undermine all traces of predictability and stability.
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The Great Painter of London’s Mayhem
Hogarth and his contemporaries agreed that human life was a stinking and dirty business once you had skimmed the froth off the top.
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Vintage Thanksgiving Postcards Are Bizarre
Nothing like saying Happy Thanksgiving with a postcard of a turkey with a knife and fork sticking out of it.
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Inside Luis Jiménez’s American Southwest
Born to an immigrant family in El Paso, Texas, Luis Jiménez grew up in a world dominated by cowboys, cactus, and rattlesnakes, all of which appeared in his art.
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Rosalind Fox Solomon Captures the Humanity of Everyday Lives
In a way, Solomon’s photo series The Forgotten harks back to a time when viewers believed that pictures told it all.
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Words and Fonts, and How They Shape Worldviews
At the Museum of Latin American Art, Gabriella Sanchez asks each viewer to become aware of how they make associations based on their preconceptions.
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The Spiritual and Erotic Role of Touch in Early Modern Art
In the early modern era, divine and erotic passions were not as polar as they may seem to us today.
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Step Into the Tender World of a Hollywood Cameraman
A history of the Golden Age of Hollywood from the perspective of someone who worked behind the scenes.
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In Neelon Crawford’s “Moving Paintings,” the Natural and Manmade Face Off
MoMA’s exhibition Neelon Crawford: Filmmaker is a retrospective of his experimental work documenting machinery, travels in South America, and more.