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The Epic Journey of Making Art
Last week two friends and I hiked the Devil's Path in a day.
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Performers in ICA Miami Show Claim They Were Pressured to Penetrate Themselves with Rope
In Laura Lima's current exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Miami — the Brazilian artist's first solo museum show in the US — a braided, blue industrial nylon rope snakes through the building's massive atrium, crawling over its white columns and beams to form an imposing, tangled w
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Nature’s Dark Edge
To get to Y Gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, you have to climb five long flights of rickety stairs.
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Building with Bricks Made from Industrial Waste
In August, a pair of architects will move into their new home in Rotterdam. Its rising walls are built of tan-colored bricks that, to the eye, seem like your typical building materials, but they are actually made entirely out of waste.
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Yun-Fei Ji's Ghost Stories of the Living
CLINTON, NY — Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe, at the Wellin Museum of Art, is the Beijing-born, Ohio-based artist’s largest solo exhibition to date in the United States.
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BRIC Presents Portrait Exhibition 'Look up here, I’m in heaven' This Summer
BRIC, a nonprofit arts and media organization located in Downtown Brooklyn, is gearing up for a busy summer full of innovative programming. BRIC will present Look up here, I’m in heaven, a group exhibition of four artists highlighting the use of unconventional portraiture to question how identity is
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The Bloody History of Pakistan in Miniature Landscapes
LONDON — Pakistan is not an old nation state, but its history — and, indeed, its present — is uncommonly steeped in blood.
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Marking an Artist's Forgotten Grave with His Own Sculpture of Death
The unmarked grave of 19th-century artist Thomas Crawford will soon be commemorated with the installation of one of his own sculptures at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
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In Chicago, a Case Study in the Ethics of Cultural Philanthropy
Last Friday the Black Star Project, an organization that works to eliminate the racial achievement gap in Chicago, hosted a “Children’s March on the MacArthur Foundation” in front of the foundation’s headquarters in the city.
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Mural in Abandoned Philly Building Becomes Wall Art for Future Condo
Real estate developers whitewashing or tearing down walls covered in graffiti is a familiar narrative, but it appears we may have reached such an advanced stage in the cooptation of street art that those days will soon be at an end.
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World's Oldest Operating Photo Studio Closes in India
After more than 150 years of documenting the faces and landscapes of India, a photo studio that many considered the world's oldest in operation has shuttered.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a Florida man beheaded a 13th-century statue, a man was arrested under suspicion of stealing a trailer full of blue-chip art, and a 300-pound sculpture of a bear turned up 700 miles from where it went missing.