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Hernan Bas on Painting Aristocratic, Queer Life in 1920s London
Aloof, gay waifs appear as persistently in Hernan Bas’s paintings as saints in a cathedral.
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Lee Miller’s Photographs Frame the Women of World War II
LONDON — A Lee Miller photograph often tells more than one story.
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Rare 1974 Photos Capture Bowie’s Godlike Presence
Months after Bowie’s death at age 69, many never-before-published images of him are now compiled in Bowie: Photographs by Steve Schapiro (powerHouse), including photos from tours in 1976 and 1986.
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The Natural Geometries of Ellsworth Kelly’s Photographs
Any exhibition of Ellsworth Kelly’s art is a bittersweet event following the artist’s recent death, a postmortem reflection on a masterful legacy.
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An Emotional Retrospective for Hilton Als
On March 2 the Artist’s Institute launched its latest season with an exhibition devised, curated, and installed by the writer and critic Hilton Als, an exhibition the institute describes as an “emotional retrospective.”
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Actors Have Been Dying to Play the Skeletal Role of Yorick in 'Hamlet'
Reports last month suggested that the skull of playwright William Shakespeare was no longer in his grave.
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As MoMA Expands, Galleries Devoted to Specific Disciplines May Disappear [UPDATED]
As part of its ongoing plans to renovate and expand its building, the Museum of Modern Art will reconfigure its third floor, which currently houses its Architecture and Design, Photography, and Drawings galleries — a move that may drastically reduce the number of rooms in the museum devoted to speci
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: seven Andy Warhol prints went missing from a museum, two men were arrested as authorities recovered a stolen Edvard Munch, and a Russian cultural critic was murdered.
Books
The 9th-Century Islamic "Instrument Which Plays by Itself"
In the 9th century, the Banū Mūsā brothers in Baghdad designed a mechanical, hydraulic organ that was made to play endlessly by itself.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, Jasmine Nyende shares the history of black female comedians at Machine Project, Claire Falkenstein gets a retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, a documentary on LA graffiti culture debuts, and more.
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After the Fall of 5Pointz, a New Project Covers a Queens Building in Murals
On a three-block stretch of 21st Street in Long Island City, New York City’s economic and artistic evolution plays out in miniature.
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Pillowy Gun Sculptures Take Aim at US' Culture of Violence
LEXINGTON, Ken. — Nearly 50 plush guns line the white walls of the small gallery Institute 193. They range in size, pattern, and make: there are fluffy 10 mm. pistols; handguns with hot pink cylinders and gold lamé tips; and rifles with silk-covered barrels that droop, nearly grazing the floor.