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A Dying Society: Abel Gance’s 'End of the World'
Abel Gance’s 1931 film End of the World certainly did represent the “end” of a very important thing: the director’s career as a great cinema pioneer.
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Angela Dufresne Has a Big Heart
Dufresne’s drawings are humorous, whimsical, tender, odd, sarcastic, fantastic, sympathetic, and sweet. She celebrates the wacky and wonderful side of human behavior when overtaken by erotic passion, as well as reaches inexplicable places in our imagination.
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The Music Must Go On
I don’t think it is hard to understand why Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s pencil drawings depict dejected, often isolated figures from a domain that is simultaneously fairy tale, horror story, and dream.
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Beer with a Painter: Bill Scott
Last summer, Bill Scott and I were invited to participate in final critiques at the Mount Gretna School of Art. Critiques are usually predictable affairs, but I was surprised by Scott’s interactions with the students.
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Campers, Sunsets, and Junkyards: Sarah Braman’s Containers of Light
I'd call Sarah Braman's show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash a breakthrough were it not for her slow and steady ascent.
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Elise Ansel’s Ab-Ex Annunciation
The stated goal of New York City-born, Portland, Maine-based painter Elise Ansel is “re-creating, re-visioning, and re-presenting” paintings from the past.
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Dissections of Desire: Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s ‘Rosebud’
Chase, who is black and queer, shows the power of his subjects by exposing just how vulnerable they are.
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Fearless Symmetries: Judith Braun’s Carbon-Based Art Forms
The unclassifiable drawings of Judith Braun are now on view in two concurrent, very different solo exhibitions.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the Panama Papers revealed the owner of a disputed Modigliani painting, German and Swiss museums planned a joint show of art from the Cornelius Gurlitt trove, and 2,000 fans of a Scottish soccer club received giant foam thumbs designed by David Shrigley.
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Cairo's Townhouse Gallery Partially Collapses
The façade of the historic building building at 10 Nabrawy Street in downtown Cairo that houses part of the revered Townhouse Gallery collapsed on Wednesday morning.
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Russian Museum Makes Good on Its April Fools’ Joke and Hires a Cat
The newest employee of Serpukhov's Museum of History and Art in Russia will receive his salary in the form of fish and patties.
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Astrological Aesthetics: April 2016 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.