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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, the Gallery Tally Project illustrates gender inequality in the art world, the long-awaited Hauser Wirth & Schimmel art complex opens, a show of Joan Brown's 1970s paintings debuts at CB1-G, and more.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: two tourists were arrested for taking naked pictures at Machu Picchu, a Snapchat post led police to a stolen sculpture, and ancient Mesopotamian artifacts were found at a refugee camp in Slovenia.
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Explore 'Duchamp to Pop' at the Norton Simon Museum
Duchamp to Pop examines Marcel Duchamp’s potent influence on Pop Art and its leading artists, among them Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, and Ed Ruscha.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTE4ODUzLCJhdCI6MjAsImJ0IjowLCJjbSI6MzYxODMwLCJjaCI6MTkzMCwiY2siOnt9LCJjciI6MTM2MjU4OCwiZG0iOjQsImZjIjoxNTE3NzE2LCJmbCI
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A Monument to Philip Roth that Maybe Also Mocks Him
MIAMI — Initially, the title of Bryan Zanisnik’s exhibition at Locust Projects, Philip Roth Presidential Library, feels appropriate.
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Lessons in Looking from a Ragnar Kjartansson Performance
DETROIT — I’d been sitting in the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit’s Cafe 78 for roughly five minutes before I noticed that the usual sonic backdrop of well-curated music had been replaced by a single repeating guitar chord, fading almost to silence each time before being reprised (with an occasio
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ArtRx NYC
This week, learn about the life of a Pre-Raphaelite muse — who was also a poet and artist, listen to Mel Chin speak and sing about his art, commemorate 3/11 with a discussion about new Japanese art and architecture, and more.
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A Lifetime Devoted to Sketching the Design Details of the New York Subway
The most encyclopedic history of the art and architecture of New York City’s subway is slowly being compiled by one man, who sketches every design detail of its stations.
Film
Twenty Years Later, Returning to a Pioneering Black Lesbian Film
It's the 1990s when a young, ambitious filmmaker goes on the hunt for "the Watermelon Woman," a black actress who played mostly mammy roles in 1930s and '40s Hollywood films.
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Tracing the Legacies of Postwar UK’s Lost and Damaged Public Artworks
Last December, after cultural preservationists in England realized that many of the nation's postwar public sculpture have disappeared from the landscape over a number of decades, they issued a public call to attempt to trace or even recover them.
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A Chronicler of Poverty in Post-Independence India Who Found Dignity in the Details
The late theorist and photographer Bhupendra Karia’s lifelong mission may best be summed up as a quest for objectivity.
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Sylvester Stallone Knocked Out by Video Art
The High Museum of Art in Atlanta was recently visited by onscreen boxer, bottled water enthusiast, and aspiring abstract painter Sylvester Stallone, who documented his visit in a shaky video selfie he shared on Instagram today.
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A Lackluster Reunion for Five of Mexico's Most Successful Contemporary Artists
MEXICO CITY — Between 1987 and 1992, a group of young art students in Mexico City formed a weekly flux group of creative exchange and critique as an alternative to the overly traditional fine art education available to them.