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Hanne Darboven: Repetition
Hanne Darboven, though considered a visual artist, considered herself, first and foremost, a writer.
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Class Plus Sass: Bunny Rogers’ ‘Columbine Cafeteria’
Is art just war conducted by other means?
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Peace Beyond Words: ‘Tower of Babel’ at Schema Projects
The curatorial focus emphasizes the Genesis story's foundational position in the mythology of language. This is fitting for an exhibition that brings together artists whose diverse languages — and even alphabets — represent countries well-steeped in the history of making language visible.
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Paintings from Big Pink: Michael Gallagher’s ‘Hallucination Engine’
PHILADELPHIA – A few months back, in a review of Jan Baltzell's paintings, I discussed the slippage between representation and abstraction. In one painting, I thought I saw a thumb, and in another I was convinced George Washington’s head was hovering in the upper right corner. This was content the a
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Blueprint for Counter Education: Republished and Still Daring After All These Years
In the United States today, education, especially in its public forms, paid for by taxpayers, is frequently the most contentious subject on the agendas of politicians, pundits, public-policy researchers, private-foundation funders, controversy-loving TV talking heads, pedagogical “experts” and, of c
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Lessons in Gigantism: Richard Serra Makes It Work
And then there’s Richard Serra, whose double-gallery blowout at Gagosian is Exhibit A for material-intensity-meets-overwhelming-scale. There’s nothing else like it.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Ukrainian border guards recovered 17 paintings stolen from the Castelvecchio Museum, Greece renewed its bid to have the Parthenon Marbles repatriated, and a neurologist claimed to have diagnosed the condition of the woman in Andrew Wyeth's iconic work "Christina's World."
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A 19th-Century Birdcage Automaton Comes to Life, and Auction
Shimmery, singing birds flit from perch to perch and a butterfly flaps its hand-painted, iridescent wings above an animated fountain on a three-tune musical automaton birdcage clock by Bautte & Moynier.
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An Exhibition About Black Lives, with a Gendered Focus
I Can’t Breathe, now on view at the Art Gallery at the College of Staten Island, is a dissonant show.
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J Dilla Gets Reanimated in a Video Collage
After a decade of anticipation, The Diary, a long-lost solo album by late hip-hop legend J Dilla, was released last month.
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From Silver Screen to Boob Tube, Mass Media Art Goes to the White Cube
That film is open to all sorts of escapes, inspirations, and incursions has long been the stuff of movies.