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Where to See Indie and Classic Films: Online Edition
The good news is that movies are increasingly taking up positions in the ether of the internet, in little corners and crooks; some legal, others quite under the table.
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Dark Matter Hits White Cube: Excavating India's Coal Miners
KOLKATA, India — Much like an experiential therapist, Prabhakar Pachpute took the viewer inside a coal mine in his first solo show, 2012's Canary in a Coalmine at Clark House Initiative in Mumbai. Upon entering a windowless, unventilated room in a run-down space, one confronted the solid darkness eq
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The Water Gardens of Otherworldly Modernism
FORT WORTH, Texas —Some Modernist landscapes are so futuristic, so weirdly alien in their urban surroundings, they look like sets for a sci-fi movie. In the case of the "Fort Worth Water Gardens" designed by Philip Johnson with partner John Burgee, the immense shapes of concrete that rise up topogra
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An Encounter With Performance Art's Mole King
Moles have been underrated by art history. They don't flaunt it like baroque peacocks, glow like medieval dragons, or bask in contradictions like post-modern minotaurs. But by burrowing tunnels, they blaze new paths and create alternate worlds under our feet.
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Cursed Meteorite, Giant Octopus Models, and Other World's Fair Wonders
The Columbian Exposition of 1893 is almost impossible to imagine: a spectacle of 200 gleaming white neoclassical buildings on over 600 acres in Chicago, a temporary city whose main purpose was instilling a sense of wonder with the world.
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Chicago Buddhist Freaks Out
CHICAGO — What happens when you make a Buddhist angry? “Aggression,” says artist Diane Christiansen. “I realized in the last year that I’ve been filled with all this aggression, from the political landscape and in some personal things too, and it began to come out in the art.”
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Art Rx
This week, art galleries are overrun with karaoke and jacuzzis, plus an exhibition of war photography and the grand reopening of the Queens Museum.
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Five Things I Learned While Teaching a Class on Arts and Labor
In August and September I facilitated a class focused on labor issues within the arts. Specifically, we looked at how and when artists receive or don’t receive payment for their work, and the broader implications of compensating artists. Because there was such a great mix of students in the class wo
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How to Talk About Art: Banksy's 3 Ps (#H2TAA)
The best way to begin talking about Banksy, right now, following his October New York Residency, would be to NOT talk about Banksy. Not just because of the press overload, but because there’s something big that the media has been ignoring … and that’s context.
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Stop Freaking Out About Funeral Selfies
CHICAGO — We haven't figured out the boundaries of a private vs. public internet. For one, it's a highly subjective matter and doesn't require hard and fast rules — especially not for the teenagers who are shaping it.
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Cats, Pot, Movies, Music, and Favorite Books: NYC's 2013 Mayoral Election
Since the battle lines were drawn in the wake of September's primary, Bill De Blasio's strategy of political keep-away has morphed the mayoral contest into a slow moving triumphal parade, but here are some facts that might help you get to know the candidates better.
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Abstracting Daily Experience
Shortly after President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage in May 2012, the online version of the Guardian came out with an interactive graph depicting gay rights in the US on a state by state basis.