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Required Reading
This week, images from the Cassini space probe, medieval history's reckoning with Nazis, the artist behind many Pre-Columbian fakes, your brain on art, font detectives, and more.
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The Pleasures of Slow Paintings
These paintings are what the artist Suzan Frecon calls “slow,” meaning that they reveal themselves quietly over time.
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Ruth Asawa, a Pioneer of Necessity
Asawa was a woman of Japanese ancestry making art in the years after World War II, which was a double whammy.
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5 Things You Can Buy at the NY Art Book Fair That Aren’t Books (or Tote Bags)
It's called an art book fair but there's so much more to this annual event that attracts tens of thousands of New Yorkers. Here are our picks of things you might want to track down.
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After the (Big Mac) Revolution
Trump says that McDonald’s food has to be safe or else the company would be sued.
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Russell Maltz's Hard-Hat Formalism
Maltz sees a load of cinderblocks as a legitimate painting substrate — even after it's broken down and mortared together as the wall of an office building.
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Where Body Meets Machine
The music of Japanese Breakfast’s Soft Sounds from Another Planet trembles, alive with possibility.
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Olivia Munroe’s Art Goes Mystic
A funny thing happened to Munroe’s works on their way to finding physical form.
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When Art Refuses to Let Go
Delirious at the Met Breuer is an exhibition filled with beautiful but comparatively polite works by habitually transgressive artists.
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Cai Guo-Qiang’s Whimsical Pedicabs Light Up Philly
Cai's public art project Fireflies invites visitors to ride in padicabs illuminated by lanterns down the bustling Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
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What Does the Next Wave of Development Mean for Bushwick Artists?
As the neighborhood's commercial real estate turns over to lure tech companies, many artists will have to look further east for affordable studio space.
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Two Thousand Years of Inuit Art Goes on Display at the Frieze Masters Art Fair
Dozens of objects make up Donald Ellis Gallery's exhibition of art by the indigenous people of North America's arctic region.