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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a trove of taxidermy animals went missing, five Francis Bacons were stolen, and a gang of crooked auction house porters went on trial.
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Miriam Schapiro's Road to Feminism
There is a particular thrill in catching an artist in one of those rare moments when they are radically altering the premise of their own work and walking out on a limb, before the direction’s meanings and effects have become codified within their own practice.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, a double-venue Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective opens, curator Selene Preciado discusses the role of the female pachuca in José Montoya's work, REDCAT hosts a two-day symposium on Immigration and Art, and more.
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A New MA Program in Arts Administration at CUNY’s Baruch College
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Conservators Work to Open the Forbidden City’s Secret Garden to the Public
When China's last emperor departed Beijing's Forbidden City in 1924, the imperial palace was shuttered, and along with it, an 18th-century garden.
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Unlocking the Mysteries of Manhattan's New Pyramid
It’s almost difficult to tell the story behind Via 57 West, the new Bjarke Ingels Group-designed residential high-rise now welcoming its first tenants on Manhattan’s west side.
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The Met Breuer Traces the Unfinished to the Deliberately Incomplete in Western Art
At a press preview earlier this month, Sheena Wagstaff, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s chairwoman for modern and contemporary art, said that “arguably only the Met” could put on a show like Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible.
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ArtRx NYC
This week is all about openings: of an unexpected David Hammons retrospective, an exhibition of socially engaged artists, a show of male nudes by female artists, and, after much anticipation, the Met Breuer.
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A Saudi Artist Reconstructs Her Father's Memories
DUBAI — “What happens to memories that have no stories?” the artist asks. “Do they get deleted? Do they just disappear?"
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Hearing a Symphony in the Cacophony of a Lagos Market
Every city has its own sounds, its distinct murmur and roar of voices and traffic.
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What’s in a Frame? Your Selfies and #FoodPorn, Thanks to a New App
New York-based Eli Wilner is one of the art world’s most renowned framers.
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Nine Mexican Women Fight Stereotypes in Their Printmaking
MINNEAPOLIS — Animals populate the prints on view at Sus Voces, a group exhibition at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, featuring nine female Mexican printmakers working in traditional techniques.