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500 Hundred Years of Failed Utopias
USC Libraries considers what utopia means today, 500 years after Sir Thomas More coined the term for his idealized fictional island.
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The Raw Expression of a Rare, Emaciated Buddha
A number of rare sculptures illustrate how starved Buddha would have been after fasting for seven weeks. One of them is being seen publicly for the first time this week ahead of auction.
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As Artist’s Murder Trial Drags On, Display of His Work Sparks Uproar
A work by the South African photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa, who is still on trial for the 2013 murder of a sex worker in Cape Town, was included in an exhibition intended to empower women.
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A Collector’s Portfolio Turns Up an Unknown Leonardo da Vinci Sketch
The drawing stood out to a curator at a Paris auction house, who, after consulting other experts, determined that it is indeed a work by the hand of the Renaissance artist.
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ArtRx LA
This week, art and music duo Lucky Dragons present the results of their current residency, experimental music collective LAFMS released a box set, artists report back on their visit to Standing Rock, and more.
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A Uterus Flipping the Bird, and Other Images of Feminist Exasperation
In her drawings, paintings, sculptures, and installations at Marian Goodman in Paris, Annette Messager deploys an iconography of anti-patriarchal anger rooted in the female body.
Opinion
A Polish Curator Is Fired in Berlin, Exposing Two Countries’ Political Blind Spots
Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska was abruptly fired, following growing political differences with her colleagues ever since Poland's right-wing party came to power last year.
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Reinterpreting W. B. Yeats's 1916 Experiment with Japanese Noh Theater
At Japan Society, Simon Starling reinterprets a one-act play by W. B. Yeats in which Japanese Noh theater met European modernism.
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The Fourth BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors
The global guide to private collections of contemporary art
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Transporting Sounds from Nepal’s Mountain Monasteries
Soundwalk Collective recorded wind at 200 villages and monasteries in Nepal to create an immersive experience at the Rubin Museum.
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5 Books to Read About Artists Under Nazism
How do artists function under tyranny?
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ArtRx NYC
This week, a lecture by Martha Rosler, a fair dedicated to political action, plus Hyperallergic writers and editors are in events all over town.