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197 Years After It Opens, the Prado Museum Gives a Woman a Solo Show
Today, Spain's national art museum opened its first solo exhibition devoted to a female artist ever.
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The Unsettling Urge to Find Beauty Amid War
At Jack Shainman Gallery’s The School, a show of four artists explores how our memories of a place can shift radically after war.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, LA's newest museum, the Main Museum, has a soft opening, museums along Grand Ave. open their doors for free, a Día de los Muertos celebration kicks off in Grand Park, and more.
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Why Did the Tree Cross the Road? Because Performance Art
A performance artist dressed as a tree went for a walk in Portland, Maine, and the police had something to say about it.
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The Real Corpses That Served as Models for the Doomed Crew of the "Raft of the Medusa"
For his most monumental painting, Théodore Géricault borrowed corpses from morgues and asylums to capture the ghastly horror of the 1816 Medusa shipwreck.
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An Ecofeminist Artist's Tiny Revolutions
In the “anthropocenic crapitalistic global implosion,” care is a part of the uproar.
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Carrie Mae Weems Updates Antigone’s Story of Defiance
Carrie Mae Weems has brought the play's undying themes to new life with her work Past Tense, which combines song, text, reading, and projected video.
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An Artist Imagines a Statue of Liberty Made from War Rubble
Syrian artist Tammam Azzam's "Statue of (Rubble) Liberty" has gone viral, but, as with most things online, it's not exactly what it seems.
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Drivel, Drool, Babble, Blabber: An Evening with Mel Bochner
The highly influential conceptual artist Mel Bochner recapitulates his 50-year dalliance with the English thesaurus.
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ArtRX NYC: Halloween
There is something spooky for every culture vulture in the city this week.
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In Brooklyn, 600 Women Artists Unite for a Photograph
A group of 600 female artists convened at the Brooklyn Museum for “Now Be Here #2,” which has been called the largest group portrait of female and female-identifying artists in New York.
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A Street Artist Spotlights the Inhumane Treatment of Migrants in Malta
Some 5,000 undocumented immigrants currently live in overcrowded detention centers in Malta, though their hardships are mostly hidden from the wealthy European tourists who flock to the Mediterranean archipelago.