From exhibition catalogue pages marketed as original prints to brazenly fake “authorized” copies of Harings and Warhols, we’re living in a golden age of art piracy.
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The Seductive Music of James Joyce’s Ulysses
Ultimately the legacy of the classic modernist novel may reside in how attentively and scrupulously it concentrates on the music of tentative, shambolic, open-ended urban lives.
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The Hidden Poetry of Everyday Life
More than 100 modest and intimately scaled artworks in Still Life and the Poetry of Place provide glimpses into interiors, both humble and opulent.
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Alone in a Dirty, Sacred Space
Whatever else Mire Lee’s Carriers is about, it seems to me that has to do with sending you back into yourself, which is not necessarily a soothing place.
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The Andy Warhol Lecture That Never Happened
It’s been 55 years since Warhol hired a lookalike to prank students at the University of Utah. What lessons on celebrity and capitalist consumption did his hoax reveal?
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Otters Are Art History’s Unsung Muses
From ancient times to the present day, join us as we pay tribute to these otter-ly charismatic creatures in various visual media.
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Poeticizing and Politicizing Black and Asian American Abstraction
Columbia University exhibition thwarts the de-politicization of postwar abstract art with a series of provocative questions.
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In Santa Fe, Artists and Retirees Join Hands to Combat Loneliness
Eliza Naranjo Morse and Jamison Chas Banks envisioned Giving Growth as a response to the forced isolation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Feminist Revival of Embroidery
Once denounced as “women’s work” with no artistic merit, embroidery is experiencing a revival, with a feminist punch.
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Dreaming With Homer on an Idyllic French Island
Inspired by the journey made by the epic hero Homer’s Odyssey, a show at Villa Carmignac combines myth with contemporary issues.
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Required Reading
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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Eroticism Beyond the Flesh
Eros Rising at New York’s Institute for Studies on Latin American Art demonstrates that eroticism might be closer to the cosmic than to the terrestrial in its infinite manifestations.