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A Public Display of Our Private Belongings

MINNEAPOLIS — On my first visit to Emmett Ramstad’s Touching Each Other exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), I completely missed the pubic hair.

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ArtRx NYC

This week, Beijing artist Cao Fei gets her first US solo show, New York's biggest independent comics festival sets up its tables, a lecture considers Sun Ra's radical take on time, and more.

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An Indoor Forest Where a Massive Head Waits in the Water

The first sensation visitors to Anima at the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn experience is disorientation, as they walk through a dark tunnel made from scraps of wood that seem pulled together by a vortex.

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A Photographer Documents the Fantasy World of Six Shut-In Brothers

For 14 years, the six Angulo brothers were locked away from society in a Lower East Side housing project.

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Using Cameras to Commune with Nature

Without being heavy handed, Tegg’s exhibition reminds us that this connection to the animal kingdom (of which we are a part) is integral to our survival, at least for as long as we require bodies to function in the physical world.

In Brief

Donald Trump Tombstone Appears, and Swiftly Disappears, in Central Park

Donald Trump is dead. Or at least, that's what one presumably left-leaning prankster wanted Central Park visitors to think over the weekend.

Books

A Tribute to New York's Wilting Flower District

If cities had such things as official botanicals, New York City's might be the flower bouquet.

In Brief

Syrian Army Liberates Ancient City of Palmyra from ISIS [UPDATED]

The Syrian regime has taken complete control of the ancient city of Palmyra, which had been occupied by ISIS since last May.

Announcement

Visit the Yale School of Art's Open Studios, April 2–3

The graduate Graphic Design, Painting/Printmaking, Photography, and Sculpture students are pleased to welcome you into their studios from 12–6 pm on Saturday, April 2nd and Sunday, April 3rd, 2016.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTI0ODIyLCJhdCI6MjAsImJ0IjowLCJjbSI6Mzc4Njc1LCJjaCI6MTkzMCwiY2si

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The Indefatigable Curiosity of Norman Lewis

PHILADELPHIA — While teaching at Jefferson School of the Social Sciences in New York around 1949, Norman Lewis began to draft an artist’s treatise in which he laid out his teaching theories, and, more intriguingly, his ideas about the role an artist should play in society.

Interview

Looking Back at Toronto's Radical 1980s Underground Art Scene

TORONTO — The Rebel Zone provides insight into a scene that set the stage for a whole generation of artists, ultimately leading to one of the city’s earliest examples of gentrification.

Comics

How Thomas Jefferson Helps Me Concentrate

I think we hear a lot about having a creative block, when it's hard to get any ideas flowing.