There’s no indication that Front Room Gallery’s Constructing Abstraction exhibition was meant to be an optical vortex of sorts but it certainly makes for a jostling viewing experience that feels like a temperature check for the power of pattern and color in contemporary abstraction.
January 15, 2014
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Jeju Island, Land of 100 Museums
On beautiful Jeju Island in South Korea, you can see one of the longest lava tubes in the world, visit the crater of an extinct volcano, and watch a fire festival … or you can stop in at the Museum of Sex and Health, the World Seashell Museum, and the Teddybear Safari. Your call.
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UC Press Makes 700 Books Free Online, Incl. Important Art Titles
The University of California’s storied academic imprint is making freely available online 700 titles published between 1984 and 2004, Open Culture has reported.
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Nuclear Wintour at the Metropolitan Museum
It’s clear that money is the ticket to fame and success in the world of culture, even — OK, maybe especially — if you’re not an artist. Cue the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s renaming of the newly renovated, soon-to-be-opened Costume Institute as the Anna Wintour Costume Center.
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Edmund V. Gillon’s Vision of 1970s and ’80s New York
Sometimes it seems like troves of old photos of New York City turn up online every other day. But we still ogle them because … well, what can we say? We heart old NYC porn.
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School of Visual Arts Presents “Home Front” Exhibition
The School of Visual Arts presents Home Front, the first of two exhibitions of new work by second-year students in the MFA Fine Arts program.
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Reviving the Spirit of an Artist Through His Personal Collection
In the story of postwar American art, the middle of the country typically gets short shrift. The work coming out of Chicago in the 1960s and ’70s was gleefully weird, darkly surreal, and mostly figurative; for that, it was mostly overlooked, along with its practitioners. One of the biggest and most influential of those was Ray Yoshida.
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To Stop the Illegal Ivory Trade, You Have to Stop the Art
China’s destruction of some 6.1 tons of seized ivory earlier this month may have seemed like a small dent in a country where around 70% of the illegal trade is concentrated, but it was an encouraging sway in the right direction.
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Kung Fu Grandmas in Kenya
Kung Fu Grandma, a new short documentary by London-based director Jeong-One Park, explores a group of elderly Kenyan women who have studied kung fu to protect themselves from rapists.
