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Cross-Cultural and Indigenous Themes Dominate SITE Santa Fe's Biennial
The second edition of the SITElines biennial has a razor-sharp gracefulness that cuts with equal parts beauty and bitterness.
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Books
Vintage Cameras and the Imperfect Photographs They Take
David Ellwand has collected over 100 vintage cameras and published the photographs he’s taken with them in RetroPhoto: An Obsession.
Interview
MacArthur Fellow Mary Reid Kelley on Dismantling Sexual Taboos with Humor
In Mary Reid Kelley’s videos, bawdy characters, performed by the artist, bewitch with complex wordplay.
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The Unsung Woman Artist Behind Your Tarot Cards
In 1909, Pamela Colman Smith collaborated with occultist A. E. Waite on the most popular tarot deck of the 20th century.
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An Attempt to 3D Model Jorge Luis Borges's Library of Babel
Programmer Jamie Zawinski has created a digital rendering of the infinite, hexagonal library that is the subject and setting of Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Library of Babel."
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From van Gogh to William Blake, the Met Spotlights a Masterpiece a Week
For the 100th anniversary of the Department of Drawings and Prints, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is selecting a different work to highlight each week.
In Brief
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.
In Brief
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.