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The Wonder of Precarious Fabric Sculptures
This one-room exhibition is most interesting when it walks around the intersection of many worlds.
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After Surviving a Fire, St. John the Divine’s 17th-Century Tapestries Return
After a catastrophic 2001 fire, the 17th-century Barberini tapestries have returned to view at Manhattan's Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine.
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Watching Human Dreams Disintegrate in Photos of the Ultra-Rich
Lauren Greenfield's Generation Wealth, a book and exhibition of the same name at the Annenberg Space for Photography, documents the out-of-control growth of the one percent.
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E.E. Cummings’s Long-Forgotten Artist’s Book
Published in 1931, CIOPW includes 99 examples of Cummings's visual art in charcoal, ink, oil, pencil, and watercolor.
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Divulging the Erotic Secrets of Self-Taught Artists
An exhibition at the Museum of Sex is the first to bring together sexually charged works by outsider artists.
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Required Reading
This week, Peggy Guggenheim's life in Venice, curating Black Radical Women in Brooklyn, talking to art dealers in Santa Fe, the horrible Damien Hirst show, the legacy of Confederate monuments, and more.
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Weekend Words: Letter
"Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!"
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Staying Up with Suzanne Buffam’s A Pillow Book
Buffam’s A Pillow Book is a smart, funny, provocative collection of lists, research into pillows and sleeplessness, and details about all kinds of people, including famous insomniacs.
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A Celebration of the Rat Bastards: Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jean Conner, Jay DeFeo, George Herms, Wally Hedrick, and Others
Shortly after coming to San Francisco, Conner formed what he christened the “Rat Bastard Society.” Conner told the curator Peter Boswell that the name was fitting for “people who were making things with the detritus of society, who themselves were ostracized or alienated from full involvement with s
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The State of Self
I still maintain the belief in the possibility of some positive, humanitarian outcomes.
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Reimagined Landscapes: Frank Romero's Los Angeles
Born and raised in a middle-class family in Boyle Heights, Romero captured the pulse of Los Angeles through his pictorial and more abstract painting of decorated cars and the vast freeways (portrayed as our cultural shrines) connecting the different parts of the city.
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Mercedes Matter’s Awful, Wonderful Itch
Matter was a believer in the possibility of channeling a total, magical presence – even if it meant destroying a work or never completing it.