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Airbnb’s Two-Faced Relationship with Artists and Art Organizations
As cities and states pass legislation to curtail Airbnb activity, the site's future as a tool for artists and art organizations both large and small remains uncertain.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, assuming we all survive the election — the results of which you could watch while Martha Rosler VJs at White Box on Tuesday night — attend a progressive museology symposium, take a tour of tombstone portraits, learn about the souring political situation in Turkey, and more.
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The Gift of Simplicity in America's Love Affair with the Shakers
The Metropolitan Museum of Art examines the emergence of 19th-century Shaker minimalism, and its influence on American Modernism.
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Is Barbara Kruger’s Donald Trump Cover for NY Mag Any Good?
Has Kruger become a one-trick pony? Is her graphic design art divine? We thought we'd ask.
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Illustrating the Greatest Bookstores in the World
Cartoonist Bob Eckstein illustrated 75 of the world's most beautiful, strange, and beloved local bookstores, many of which are in danger of closing.
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Miró’s Only Marble and Glass Mural Is Restored
Joan Miró painted many murals in his lifetime, but he designed only one made of glass and marble, for Wichita State University’s Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art. “Personnages Oiseaux,” or “Bird People,” was commissioned by the museum’s founding director Martin H. Bush. It adorned the building’s
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A Photographer Turns His Back on the World’s Most-Visited Attractions
Over four years, Oliver Curtis traveled to the world’s most-photographed tourist sites, from the Parthenon to the Hollywood sign, and took pictures while facing the “wrong way.”
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Marina Abramović Embroiled in Fake Hillary Clinton #SpiritCooking Controversy
It's totally chill if male Trump trolls bathe in pig's blood, but not if a female candidate's associate wants to attend a #SpiritCooking event.
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An Artist Hides His Critiques of the Mexican Government in Plain Sight
Caroles Amorales essentially infiltrated a newspaper by writing subversive articles that simulated the style and format of an average story or puff piece, without raising any red flags regarding censorship.
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Two Projects Revisit Historical Images with a Calm and Critical Eye
Two video installations currently at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago place the viewer within images and their history, and demand we look at them differently.
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Photographing the Enchanted Belongings of Dead Celebrities
Assigning value to a cheap, everyday thing that a famous person happened to use can be explained in part by what psychologists call the “law of magical contagion.”
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At the Montreal Biennial, Lessons in How to Look
Across the city, many works by the 55 artists participating in the 2016 Biennale de Montréal deal with the possibilities, limitations, and consequences of spectacle and spectatorship.