Art
Books, Wefts, and Black Lives Matter at the Baltimore Museum of Art
The rewards of what is in plain sight far outweigh what is tucked away.
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Pippa Garner's Crossover Art of Gizmos, Gadgets, and Gender
Garner has been an absurdist for four decades, satirizing consumerism, marketing, and waste in performance art, videos, sculpture, installations, drawings and magazine editorials and art pages.
Books
A Study of Art Galleries Reveals Their Aesthetic of Transcendental Experience
David Carrier’s The Contemporary Art Gallery is a small but well-stocked treasury of first-hand observations by someone who’s spent a lot of time in art galleries, but who has retained enough critical distance to see them with a certain objectivity.
News
A Database of Photography’s First 100 Years from Over 50 European Archives
A giant cache of historical photography is now part of a searchable online database.
Art
The Persistence of Things in a Japanese Minimalist’s Installations
Why things persist might be a question most relegated to the realm of philosophy, but I think it’s germane to Kishio Suga’s installations at Dia in Chelsea.
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A Fictional Nudist Colony Where Postcolonial Tensions Are Laid Bare
Alex Nguyen-Vo's paintings imagine a resort where nude Westerners frolic care-free, oblivious to the power dynamics of their tropical paradise.
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Midcentury Modern Design and the Anxiety of Selling Out
Behind each innovation of the period was a negotiation between a company's needs and a designer's creativity.
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The Tactile Temptation of Ray Johnson's Assemblages
Ray Johnson's exhibition at Matthew Marks is proof that the eccentric collage and mail artist's works were never meant for gallery walls.
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Fading Memories of Chinatown in 1940s San Francisco, Preserved in Dioramas
"I want to capture my memories, and the only way for me to capture my memories is to make them in three dimensions," says artist Frank Wong in the short film Forever, Chinatown.
In Brief
Tell Politicians How You Really Feel with Artist-Made Postcards
Every month, publisher Primary Information will release a new set of artist-made postcards intended to be sent to buyers' representatives.
Art
Surreal Arrangements of Bare Limbs and Suggestive Fruit
In her solo show at Acme, Heather Rasmussen turns her own body into an allegory of desire.
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As Dakota Access Pipeline Leaks, Native Artists Examine Contested Landscapes
In My Country Tis of Thy People, You’re Dying, artists grapple with forcible resource extraction on indigenous lands.