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A Leader of Attacks on Timbuktu Shrines Convicted of War Crime
In a historic decision today, the International Criminal Court convicted an individual who destroyed cultural heritage of committing a war crime.
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Crank That! A Dutch Museum Devoted to Musical Clocks and Self-Playing Instruments
UTRECHT, The Netherlands — Right off the city’s main commercial thoroughfare, where bicycles zoom past with a clinking sound, is one of the Netherlands’ most surprising treasures, the Museum Speelklok (or Museum of Musical Clocks).
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, an exhibition opens on an overlooked Bay Area arts movement, a show in an abandoned hospital explores what it means to be human, Mexican artist Mónica Mayer lectures on feminist art, and more.
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A Lesbian Artist Who Painted Her Circle of Women at the Turn of the 20th Century
WASHINGTON, DC — Tucked into a far corner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, an exhibit showcases the extensive career of artist Romaine Brooks, a turn-of-the-20th-century icon who’s since been largely forgotten by the mainstream.
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The Southeast Asian Artists Who Searched for a Regional Identity After Colonialism
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — For far too long, and to this day, Southeast Asia has been aestheticized, largely by the French, as a means to advance the role of the colonizer.
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Mark Bradford's Paintings Bring Out the Politics in Clyfford Still's
BUFFALO — Many published interviews with the contemporary artist Mark Bradford focus on his youth and the geography of Los Angeles, but not his conversation with Abstract Expressionism.
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Your Concise Guide to the 2016 Bushwick Open Studios
The weather is cool, cafés are selling pumpkin-flavored treats, and it's time for Bushwick Open Studios! Yes, that sounds weird, but it's the new reality.
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Duchamp's Spinning Optical Experiments
In 1935, Marcel Duchamp set up a booth at the Concours Lépine, a French fair for inventors promoting their latest gadgets that still occurs to this day.
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A Weighty Rashid Johnson Show that Doesn't Take Off
The dream embedded in the hymn “I’ll Fly Away” is rest — a cessation of struggle, labor, drudgery.
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Explore the World's Sounds Through a Map of Field Recordings and Remixes
Since 2014, hundreds of artists have been making field recordings, transforming them into new sounds, and sending both files to the online project Cities and Memory.
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An Artist’s Fantastical Dioramas Fill a Tiny Store Along the Hudson
KINGSTON, New York — Walking on John Street in Kingston on a rainy Saturday night my eye was caught by the oddest storefront on the block.
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Encyclopedias Transformed into Dazzling, Dada-Inspired Sculptures
The title of artist Brian Dettmer's Dodo Data Dada, showing at PPOW, sounds like cute alliterative nonsense until you realize it's a clever description of the work on view: Sculptures made of old encyclopedias, a medium nearing extinction, with their pages of data carved into intricate photomontages