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Fred Wilson Teaches Us How to Pay Attention
In the artist's intervention at Oberlin's Allen Memorial Art Museum, white and black bodies suggest a deeper, racialized meaning.
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Help Transcribe World War I Love Letters
On this Valentine's Day, Europeana is launching a crowdsourcing project to transcribe the text of digitized World War I love letters.
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From a Table of Phalluses to a Ménage à Trois Watercolor, Erotic Art Heads to Auction
Sotheby's first-ever auction of erotic artworks, timed to Valentine's Day, features a delightful range of objects, including a rare homoerotic painting from 18th-century Turkey.
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An Artist Excavates the Past Lives of a Gallery's Building
Leyla Cárdenas examines the physical and historical layers of the spaces in which she works, studying their fragments and the experiences lived therein.
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Long Attributed to a Follower, a Pieter Brueghel the Younger Painting Is Authenticated
The artist's "Wedding Dance in the Open Air" spent many years undated and unsigned in storage at the Holburne Museum.
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Betye and Alison Saar Talk Art at the California African American Museum
In their mother-daughter conversation, Betye and Alison Saar will talk about their art, collaborations, and shared experiences as family.
In Brief
Masked Men Destroy Exhibition at Kiev Art Space
On February 7, men wearing balaclavas stormed into the Visual Culture Research Center and destroyed an exhibition of work about the Maidan Revolution by artist Davyd Chychkan.
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The Frontier of Documentary Filmmaking at MoMA
Opening on February 16, the 2017 edition of the Doc Fortnight festival showcases films about humanitarian crises, politically charged art projects, and more.
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Peace and Grief in the Art of US Veterans
The exhibition Not Alone provides access to a complicated and difficult subject matter that intends to open up and bridge dialogue between civilians and those who have served.
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Photographic Portraits of Transgender Life in the West Village
In his new body of work, Mark Seliger, who is primarily a celebrity photographer, engages with the trans people in his own neighborhood.
Announcement
SCAD presents deFINE ART 2017, a Program of Exhibitions, Performances, and Talks
deFINE ART highlights emerging and established artists and visionaries.
Comics
For the Love of Snail Mail
Sometimes email doesn't cut it.