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This week, the rich are hoarding, feminist performance art responds to rape, the story behind one of the most famous game show jingles, and more.
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R.I.P. Ric Ocasek, Icon of Blankness
Whenever the chugging intro to “Just What I Needed” or “My Best Friend’s Girl” plays, fans of adolescent drama pump their fists and say yeah.
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A Painter Embraces Inauthenticity
Albert Oehlen has been a wild spirit from first to last.
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A Greenhouse for Extinct Flora
Michael Wang’s installation resembles an assisted living facility for plants.
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Pierre Soulages, Extreme Painter at 100
Soulages is not a reductive painter, but an artist who enlarges our sense of tradition by demonstrating the infinite potential of a single pigment.
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The Gnarly, Sassy Minimalism of Tom Doyle
Doyle's sculpture offers an opportunity to contemplate the beauty of pure form, but without a hint of nostalgia.
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How Happy I Am to Have Seen This Little Corner of America in a Museum
When it comes to the word “diversity,” what are we really referring to?
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In Praise of Painting’s Ambiguity, Part 4
Jasper Johns’s art has been accused of being cool, detached, aloof, and remote; nothing could be farther from the truth.
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Activists Crash Private Party at the Museum of Modern Art to Demand Prison Divestment
The protesters gathered outside the museum to call on MoMA and its board member Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, to divest themselves from private prison companies.
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The New MoMA: A Mix of Innovative Choices and Missed Opportunities
The renovation aims to be big enough to not only hold the institution’s art, but its promises.
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Artist Pravin Mishra Files Defamation Lawsuit Against His Sexual Assault Accuser in India
Pravin Mishra has filed civil defamation charges against an independent journalist, following a number of similar suits as the #MeToo movement grows in India.
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This Performance Invites You to Send Postcards to Older New Yorkers
Artist Laura Nova's "Spiels on Wheels" project replicates home-delivered meals to encourage you to send a story to the city's seniors.