Alongside his prolific career as a singer-songwriter, Leonard Cohen has been a poet, a novelist, a monk in Los Angeles, and, perhaps most obscurely, an artist.
April 7, 2015
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Douglas Coupland Wants to Give You Brain Orgasms
TORONTO — “I like art about art. I think many people pussyfoot around this issue.”
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An Artist Turns Invasive Plants into Paper Sculptures
DETROIT — How often is an artist willing to introduce an element of chance to her solo gallery opening?
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Wim Wenders Trains His Lens on a Photojournalist
Wim Wenders co-directed The Salt of the Earth, a portrait of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, with Salgado’s son, Juliano Ribeiro. The film is both a comprehensive portrait of Salgado’s work and a meditation on the vocation of photojournalism.
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In a New Residency, Artists Make Work by Volunteering
The small, circular portrait features the face of a man in gold. Creases cut through his forehead, and patches of hair line his thick lips.
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Rogue Light Artists Revive Brooklyn’s Lost Edward Snowden Monument
After an unauthorized sculpture bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was installed and quickly removed in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park, the Illuminator shone a ghostly version onto its empty pedestal.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Russians rob Pierre Soulages, another dog sculpture scampers off, antiquities dealer busted selling loot, and more.
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Where Are the Women of Color in New Media Art?
Not long ago I wrote an article celebrating the work being done by cyberfeminist collective Deep Lab. After the piece was published, a writer, curator, and friend wrote to me to express concerns about the lack of women of color artists in the group.
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Painted Glimpses of the Lives of Fictional Characters
The characters of novels often know things the reader doesn’t.
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Contradictory Patterns and Decorative Illusions
One of the more promising avenues that postmodernism explored was to seek out the nether regions that modernism forgot.
