Art
Mo Kong Maps a Post-Climate Change Future
Kong’s background as a recent Chinese immigrant and, especially, a former investigative reporter help account for the exhibition’s methods and mood.
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A German Artist’s Notes From Underground
Mischa Leinkauf’s images of subterranean urban worlds are formally arresting and packed with metaphorical meaning.
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Walt Whitman's Sensuality and Self-Promotion
Whitman’s poetry feels inseparable from his physical presence, his body itself, as does the work of few other poets.
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Garry Winogrand in Living Color
If the nostalgic atmosphere of the photographer's black-and-white images threatens to obscure his compositional acuity these Kodachrome slides dispel it handily.
Books
The Unreality of Everyday Life
What makes Ha Seong-nan's Flowers of Mold so powerful is her ability to reveal the almost imperceptible slippage between actual events and the protagonists' perceptions.
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Dana Powell and the Pleasures of Restraint
Do not mistake small size of Powell’s paintings for modesty; she wants to draw us in, to make works that can sustain close looking.
Books
Remembering Eva Palmer Sikelianos, the Artist Who Lived Like an Ancient Greek
An illuminating biography by Artemis Leontis reveals the little-known story of Eva’s mission to revive an ancient culture.
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Vigil for Slain Artist Devra Freelander Escalates Into a Debate Over Bike Safety
A spar erupted between mourners, bike activists, and truck drivers on the site of the fatal accident in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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78 Prominent Artists Demand National Portrait Gallery End its Relationship with BP
Signatories, including artists Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, and Rachel Whiteread, want the museum to end its relationship with the oil company.
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A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in England, New York, Maine, and Vermont.
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Balancing the Weight of Provenance
One of the first things that Neckles does with her work here is convey where her head is at, yet there’s still much in this exhibition that is enigmatic.
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How One Meme Reveals the Difference in How Humans and AI "See"
As AI technology grows more sophisticated, neural networks can generate pictures people are comfortable looking at. It takes a surreal reject of an image to remind us of how differently a computer perceives the world.