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A Performance Unpacks Our Relationship to the Things We Keep Boxed Up
Before Geoff Sobelle's performance The Object Lesson begins, the audience is invited to riffle through the hundreds of boxes piled high around the theater.
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The Kinetic Possibilities of Salvaged Furniture
Dre Britton breaks down quotidian structures and rebuilds them, yielding constructions that are both vaguely familiar and vaguely alien.
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Surveying a Sculptor's Audacious Public Art Interventions
Erlich does not challenge the public to find meaning in his work but entices them with imagery that leaves them receptive to multiple perspectives.
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Gabriel Orozco Has Given Up Making Art
The artist's new installation in Mexico City, a functioning convenience store inside a gallery, peddles a false analogy between art and disposable commodities.
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With a New Expansion, the Leslie-Lohman Museum Broadens Its View of Queer Art
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in Soho has doubled in size, with a new exhibition that offers the opportunity to reconsider what constitutes queer art.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: archaeologists discovered a giant statue of Ozymandias in Cairo, Bali refused to cover up nude statues of Hindu deities during a visit by the king of Saudi Arabia, and the British Museum displayed a watercolor it discovered over ten years ago.
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Woody Guthrie and His Fascist-Killing Guitar Projected on Oklahoma State Capitol
On a Monday night in February, an image of Woody Guthrie was projected on the façade of the Oklahoma State Capitol, his guitar reading: "How Did It Come to This."
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Activists Spill Symbolic Oil at the Louvre to Protest Its Sponsorship Deal
Last Sunday, protestors staged a dramatic performance at the Louvre to pressure it to cut ties with French multinational oil and gas company Total S.A.
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Attend an Artist's Workshop on Zoning Laws in Los Angeles
This Saturday, Rosten Woo will lead a workshop on zoning that aims to answer the questions, "Who does it serve and why should you care?"
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Artist Remixes "If You See Something, Say Something" Posters in NYC Subway
The very subtly tweaked posters encourage riders to "stay aware, not afraid."
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Jeff Koons Convicted of Plagiarizing a Photo of Naked Children
A French court ruled that a Koons sculpture infringes on the copyright of a black-and-white photograph by the late artist Jean-François Bauret.
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Scenes and Signs from the International Women's Strike in Oakland and New York City
On International Women's Day, thousands of women around the country skipped work and took to the streets.