Wendy Vogel’s curated section at Volta NY reminds us that we carry our identities with us always — even inside the artificial environment of an art fair.
March 3, 2017
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Dispute Over Asian American Stereotypes Gives Way to Dialogue at an Art Fair [UPDATED]
Show Mein, an exhibition at this year’s Spring/Break Art Show, became the focus of a heated debate about cultural appropriation.
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Women Art Critics on Writing About Historically Marginalized Subjects
This Sunday, the Brand Library is hosting Herstorians, a panel discussion on the opportunities, challenges, and obligations that female arts writers have to examine underrepresented artists.
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From Mysterious Erotica to Holy Bell Jars, Singular Projects at the Independent Art Fair
This year, the visions at the Independent Art Fair were multiple, with some galleries dedicating their booths to outsider and unknown artists, as well as work that is a bit more playful.
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Scouting Out the Armory Show, a Theme Park for the Wealthy
Amid the big, blue chip baubles, there are flickers of truly powerful and personal work at the latest edition of the vast Armory Show art fair.
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Feeling Anxiety and Relief at NADA New York
Some of the most memorable art at this year’s NADA New York deals with distress, though the massive fair also offers respite.
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A Thriller About Parisian Terrorists Refuses to Pass Judgment
Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama follows a group of Parisians as they plan and carry out coordinated terrorist attacks and then hole up in a luxury department store.
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The Artist Who Put Kellyanne Conway in an Andrew Wyeth Painting
Some images just work, and you can definitely say that about Tim O’Brien’s update of Andrew Wyeth’s famous painting.
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Apply to SVA’s Summer Residencies in New York City
SVA’s Summer Residencies offer artists, designers and creative thinkers time, space and a supportive community.
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Native Women Share Stories and Songs at the Whitney Museum
On March 5, indigenous women creators will gather to celebrate the role of art in their fight for environmental and cultural justice.
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Penn Commissions Sound Artists to Respond to Landscape Photographs
The University of Pennsylvania commissioned 10 sound artists to respond to 10 landscape photographs in its art collection.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: an Argentine curator and US resident was denied reentry into the US, anti-fascists and white nationalists clashed at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and a Klimt painting led the way in a record auction at Sotheby’s.
