CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — “The work is the death mask of its conception,” Walter Benjamin wrote about writing technique in his 1928 collection of essays One-Way Street.
September 2016
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Harvard’s Garden of Glass Flowers Blooms Again
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The historic collection of glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History recently reopened after its first comprehensive renovation.
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The 1940s Royal Academy President Who Considered Picasso “a Menace”
Sir Alfred Munnings, president of the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts in the 1940s, was famous for his masterful paintings of racehorses.
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An Artist Attempts to Resensitize Us to Images of Violence
BOSTON — In “Inextinguishable Fire,” a digital video by Cassils, the artist assumes the aspect of a martyr while being enveloped by flames.
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Join Hyperallergic for an Art-Filled Day Trip to Philadelphia on October 22
On Saturday, October 22, we’re organizing an art-filled day trip from NYC to visit the ICA Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), and Fabric Workshop and Museum.
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A Leader of Attacks on Timbuktu Shrines Convicted of War Crime
In a historic decision today, the International Criminal Court convicted an individual who destroyed cultural heritage of committing a war crime.
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Crank That! A Dutch Museum Devoted to Musical Clocks and Self-Playing Instruments
UTRECHT, The Netherlands — Right off the city’s main commercial thoroughfare, where bicycles zoom past with a clinking sound, is one of the Netherlands’ most surprising treasures, the Museum Speelklok (or Museum of Musical Clocks).
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A Lesbian Artist Who Painted Her Circle of Women at the Turn of the 20th Century
WASHINGTON, DC — Tucked into a far corner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, an exhibit showcases the extensive career of artist Romaine Brooks, a turn-of-the-20th-century icon who’s since been largely forgotten by the mainstream.
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The Southeast Asian Artists Who Searched for a Regional Identity After Colonialism
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — For far too long, and to this day, Southeast Asia has been aestheticized, largely by the French, as a means to advance the role of the colonizer.
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Mark Bradford’s Paintings Bring Out the Politics in Clyfford Still’s
BUFFALO — Many published interviews with the contemporary artist Mark Bradford focus on his youth and the geography of Los Angeles, but not his conversation with Abstract Expressionism.
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Your Concise Guide to the 2016 Bushwick Open Studios
The weather is cool, cafés are selling pumpkin-flavored treats, and it’s time for Bushwick Open Studios! Yes, that sounds weird, but it’s the new reality.
