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ArtRx LA
This week, discuss the election at an open forum, make textile-based works on Black Friday, see two important new films about race and civil rights, and more.
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In Brief
Jeff Koons Gifts a Big Bouquet of Ugly to the French
"Bouquet of Tulips" is intended as a gesture of Franco-American solidarity following last year's terrorist attacks in the French capital.
Announcement
'Doing Time,' Tehching Hsieh Exhibition at Venice Biennale 2017
Seen by many as a highly influential figure in the history of conceptual and performance art, Tehching Hsieh’s renown emanates from a staggering series of One Year Performances in the early 1980s: ‘rule-based’ works conducted at the limits of human endurance.
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A Tribute to Oscar Wilde in the Prison Where He Was Incarcerated
The art organization Artangel has invited visual artists, writers, and performers to respond to Reading Gaol's most famous inmate, Oscar Wilde.
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A Step in the Right Direction for the Display of Native American Art
The Newark Museum has rehung its exceptional collection of works by America's indigenous artists, providing more contextualizing information, while also letting objects speak to each other across eras and regions.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, look out for a new book from Lynne Tillman, a screening of Susan Sontag's only documentary, a lecture by critic Negar Azimi, and more.
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Paintings that Stress the Strangeness in Ordinary Surfaces
Corydon Cowansage's works on canvas twist our perspective on such typically drab images as blades of grass and brick surfaces.
Books
The Underappreciated Art of the Hollywood Backdrop
A new book highlights the unheralded contributions of backdrop artists to the history of film.
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A Contemporary Take on Rococo Over-Intellectualizes Its Point
Tom Ellis’s detached intellectualizing of the Wallace Collection’s contents and history unfortunately leaves the soul unstirred.
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Vice President-Elect Mike Pence Made Strange Comic Strips While in Law School
Is there anything to be understood from Mike Pence’s law school comic strips?
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Lina Bo Bardi’s Glass House and the Multiple Worlds It Contains
While the Italian-born architect Lina Bo Bardi carried her European heritage with her, her passion for, and even affinity with Brazilian culture was profound.
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Trying to Believe in Sanford Biggers's Subjective Cosmology
In the Sanford Biggers exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, there is a feeling of being somewhat loose and unsupported in the space.