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Ancient Erotic Dreams and Explicit Scenes in the New York Public Library Collection
Eroticism has always had a rich presence throughout art history.
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Revisiting a Subversive Mexican Art Collective and the Country’s Forgotten Crimes
MEXICO CITY — At first glance, the room seems innocuous.
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In the Museum for 100 Days, a Performance Artist Pushes Us to Reflect on Time
BOSTON — There are so many layers to Marilyn Arsem’s piece at the Museum of Fine Arts that it's a bit hard to know where to start.
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The Dynamic Distortions of a Formal Painter
Mernet Larsen claims an unlikely pair of influences: 15th-century Italian painting and the austere abstractions of the Russian modernist El Lissitzky (1890–1941).
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The Myth of Beyoncé and Pop Cultural Liberation
The argument is that Beyoncé’s “Formation” is complexity masquerading as simplicity. But it’s also simplicity pretending to be more complicated.
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Quiet and Haunting Photographs of Our Modern Ruins
Our fascination with ruins is nothing new.
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MIT Students Win Design Competition to Help Bring the Hyperloop from Hype to Reality
In 2013, tech billionaire and "real life Iron Man" Elon Musk first proposed his concept for the Hyperloop, a futuristic ground transport system made up of levitating pods hurtling through pressurized tubes at 700mph.
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An Exhibition Goes in Search of Victor Hugo's Artistic Libido
PARIS — With Eros Hugo: Between Modesty and Excess, the Maison Victor Hugo offers up a fervent paradox: how can an author lead a bawdy and risqué lifestyle while handling the subject of sex prudishly in his virtuosic writings?
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Paintings of Roller Derby Butt Bruises as Feminist Badges of Honor
For most people, a nasty bruise is something to cover up.
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In Cindy Sherman’s Street Style Satire, the Joke’s on Her
Chameleonic photographer Cindy Sherman is featured in March’s Harper’s Bazaar in a send-up of street style Instagrammers that makes both the artist and the magazine look out of date and tone deaf.
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A Japanese Artist Who Sculpted Rather Than Painted His Canvases
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — All of the frustration and sense of dislocation the Second World War had caused Yoshishige Furukawa was visible in the self-portrait he made after all his works were destroyed in air raids that burned down his parents' home.