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A Flood Along the Fringes of Art
With the site-specific installation FLOOD, artist and architect Mike Nesbit seeks to interact with the people and history of locations well outside of the typical exhibition space.
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Philip Johnson's Postmodern Skyscraper Is Landmarked, But Rockburne Murals May Still Be in Danger
The postmodern icon has become the first of its kind to gain landmark preservation status in New York City, but there's no word if the art housed inside will remain safe.
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Danish Artist Drowns Le Corbusier's Most Famous Building in Fjord
Somewhere in the distance, Celine Dion sings "My Heart Will Go On" as she pours one out for the French architect-idealist.
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Thornton Dial and Looking Good for the Price
A 1993 assemblage by Thornton Dial exemplifies exactly why he belongs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 20th Century Modern and Contemporary galleries, without any caveats like “southern,” “folk,” or “outsider” typically assigned to the artist.
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Nevin Aladağ, Kimsooja, and Nari Ward Create Visual Metaphors for Migration, Exile, and Belonging
Three artists tackle notions of blended culture and identity in Worlds Otherwise Hidden at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Searching for Humor in America's Machismo Freefall
Laugh Back's comedic timing is so regrettably tardy that its punchlines about Trumpism and American masculinity fail to land.
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Required Reading
This week, a couple's de Kooning secret, Milton Glaser brands Trump's "Space Force," A. K. Burns' first public sculpture, art in a state of emergency, African contemporary art since 1992, and more.
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Formal Feelings: Anne Waldman's Poetry Explores Feminist Traditions
In Trickster Feminism, Waldman employs a range of poetic forms including chant, the blues refrain, and the prose poem.
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Donna Stonecipher, Global Flaneur
With Donna Stonecipher’s work, you never know what the next sentence is going to tell.
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Painting in The Age of Anxiety
I have an innate distrust of work that has a whiff of nostalgia drifting off its surface, whether it is for Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, or, further back, Albert Pinkham Ryder.
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Faithful to Putin, One Hundred Percent
Don't trust what you read. Don't trust what you see.
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A Master of the Flesh and Painter of the Soul
Ivan Albright represents a deeply transcendent, even Platonic, idea of the soul, although one could be forgiven for missing it among the mercilessly unglamorous bodies of his figures.