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Kelley Walker's solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis features photographs of black men and women smeared with chocolate and toothpaste that have triggered a public boycott of the institution.
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LOS ANGELES — “No one is an innocent actor in the fine art of gentrification,” said a woman with a bandana covering her face, as she stood with dozens of protesters last Saturday evening outside of Museum as Retail Space, a gallery in the Eastside neighborhood of Boyle Heights.
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A subterranean reservoir in Houston, Texas, once slated for demolition is being reimagined as an unconventional art space.
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This fall, Arizona State University Art Museum is taking a different perspective and looking not only at Mendieta’s art but also at how her artistic practice has influenced contemporary artists in Energy Charge: Connecting to Ana Mendieta.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTUzMjM4LCJhdCI6MjAsIm
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TRIUMPH, Ill. — For four confusing and awkward minutes my obscured face occupied the screen of a mixed-sex chat room on Cam4.
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Planning an emotional budget can help save your energy for the important things.
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A fleet of 24 cars will soon be delivering material from the stacks of the New York Public Library along the tracks of its new "book train."
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PARIS — Though almost entirely lacking a female presence — artist Jay DeFeo and poet Diane Di Prima being the exceptions that prove the rule — the Centre Pompidou’s airily laid out retrospective of the Beat Generation is otherwise flawless.
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SOKOLOWSKO, Poland — For three years running, Sanatorium of Sound has given hundreds of experimental sound art devotees reason to ascend to a small, mysterious, Polish village, nestled only a short distance from the Czech border.
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The population of artists in the US is growing and diversifying (slowly), art schools don't prepare students for the real world, and artists are still poor.
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In a letter released today, 1,281 archaeologists, museum directors and staff, anthropologists, and historians expressed their solidarity against the destruction at Standing Rock by the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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When a rare portrait by one of Britain's first professional female artists went up for sale two years ago, auctioneers assumed it was the work of a man.