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The Little Glass Boy
It’s the fragile, defenseless, and invisible ones who will take the hit and feel it first.
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In Its Own Faint Language: On Don Mee Choi’s 'Hardly War'
Four million people (mostly civilian) were killed in the three years of the Korean War, and it is estimated that a million more Koreans were displaced in its aftermath, but here in the United States, the war is frequently referred to as “forgotten.”
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Unmet Promises: Gay Gotham at the Museum of the City of New York
As I walked through the two floors of the museum I kept asking myself, where am I in this celebration of upper-class gay white male creativity?
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Death Wish: Raymond Pettibon at the New Museum
Pettibon’s real subject is not the hypocrisy, mendacity, and stupidity of political leaders, but the Thanatos-driven impulses that compel us to empower those leaders in the first place.
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Objects that Manifest the Contradictions of American History
Sam Durant’s exhibition Build Therefore Your Own World at Blum & Poe examines and creates points of connection between the transcendentalists and African Americans.
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A Soon-to-Be-Hidden Artwork in NYC Spells Out the Realities of Native American Life
Duane Linklater's exhibition at 80WSE asks us to consider how knowledge and tradition are transmitted.
In Brief
Museum Terminates Anti-Trump Art Project over Safety Concerns
"HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US," a work by the trio LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner, was originally intended to run for Donald Trump's entire presidency at the Museum of the Moving Image.
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A Lecture for the End of the World at Postmasters Gallery
On February 12, artist Molly Crabapple will deliver a "lecture for the end of the world" by the pseudonymous philosopher Fuck Theory at Postmasters Gallery.
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The Artificial Caverns that House America's Underground Business Parks
Hollowed Earth: The World of Underground Business Parks at the Center for Land Use Interpretation descends into the strange world of America's commercial caverns.
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Organize with the Artists’ Political Action Network in LA
The Artists' Political Action Network, led by artists Kathryn Andrews, Andrea Fraser, Charles Gaines, and others, will be hosting an organizing meeting at 356 Mission this Sunday.
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The Subtle Madness of Larry Poons and Jean Dubuffet
Who would have thought that Dubuffet's “art brut” style would eventually find an affinity with the gritty, unconventional large-scale paintings Poons made three decades later?
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A Nomadic Artist's Journey Through the Ancient History of a French City
Anna Boghiguian's exhibition in Nîmes draws inspiration from the city's history, from its days as a Roman outpost to its important role in the global textile industry.