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Protesters Return to James Cohan Gallery to Say Goodbye to "Omer Fast’s Racist Show"
Activists from as far away as Los Angeles and Vancouver came to Manhattan's Chinatown to address the role of art galleries in gentrification.
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The Next Siren Wail
How do we get home from here?
Books
An Artist Who Fantasized as a Way to Survive
A self-taught draftsman and fantastical storyteller, Renaldo Kuhler’s life and fashion sense were as eccentric as his art.
Art
Dale Chihuly’s Road Not Taken
Chihuly may be a nature sculptor but his shiny maximalist aesthetic is far from naturalistic.
Art
A Painter’s Theater of Destitution
The fifteen realist paintings in Linden Frederick: Night Stories take us on a tour of small-town Maine.
Art
The Politics of Adversity in Pope.L’s Flint Water Project
Flint Water Project politicizes the readymade, positing the bottles as symbols of gross negligence and misconduct on the part of city and state officials, and the dire consequences.
Art
Throughout New York’s Chinatown, Telling Immigrant Stories Through Dance
In Mei-Yin Ng’s "Sit, Eat, Chew," performers take you on a tour through Chinatown's apartments, restaurants, museums, and parks, while sharing personal immigrant stories.
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Anish Kapoor's Bean Will Be Windexed, Baked (by Guy Fieri), Turned into a Ghost, and More
A new meme has people creating Facebook events to render peculiar tributes to Chicago's iconic "Cloud Gate" sculpture.
History
A 1903 Proposal to Preserve the Dead in Glass Cubes
In 1903, an inventor patented a method of preserving corpses in glass, one of a number of radical inventions that has sought to resist death's decay.
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A Week of Chaos at Artforum Magazine Following Sexual Harassment Allegations
One of the magazine's longtime publishers, Knight Landesman, resigned after a string of sexual harassment allegations were made public this week.
Film
In Ken Burns's Vietnam War Documentary, Claims of Objectivity Obscure Patriotic Bias
By accepting patriotic doctrine even as it claims to present all sides, the epic documentary takes some slippery liberties with truth and history.
Art
A Virtual Project Connects Visitors to Holocaust Survivors and Their Stories
New Dimensions in Testimony invites visitors to the Museum of Jewish Heritage to have a virtual conversation with a Holocaust survivor.