Art
A Show of African American Artists Resonates in Racially Divided Detroit
DETROIT — Can an exhibition be informed by the place it visits?
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A Mysterious Police Archive Reveals Mid-Century Mexico's Cult Criminal Heroes
In summer 2010, while poking around at a stall in Mexico City’s sprawling thrift market, Las Lagunillas, artist Stefan Ruiz discovered a batch of photographs from the city’s police archives.
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Encountering a Frank Lloyd Wright House 1,200 Miles from Where It First Stood
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — On August 17, 1953, Gloria and Abraham Wilson sent a letter to one of the most famous architects in the United States. It began: "Dear Mr. Wright: Would you design a house for us?"
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Eggsploding the White Cube
Christopher Chiappa has installed 7,000 hyperrealistic sculptures of sunny-side-up eggs all over Kate Werble Gallery's pristine walls, concrete floors, steel ducts, fluorescent lights, and reception desk.
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Learning Greensboro: From Listening to Falling in Love (Part 3)
Greetings from the final studio days of a mostly extra-studio project.
News
Ancient Phallus Carving Gets Public Exposure After Two Decades as Garden Ornament
A carving of a phallus in a rock would probably seem like the handiwork of a bored youth today, but such imagery was especially common in ancient Greece and Rome as a symbol of good luck rather than a sexual reference.
In Brief
After PETA Lawsuit, Judge Rules Monkey Doesn’t Own the Copyright to His Selfie
In 2011, an Indonesian crested macaque monkey took a few grinning selfies with a camera found in his nature preserve. These "monkey selfies" would soon go viral.
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SVA Continuing Education Spring 2016 Information Sessions
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The Radical Discos of 1960s Italy and Architectural Innovation
LONDON — Although Radical Design was short-lived, its conceptual outcome had far-reaching implications, and the issues raised by the movement have preoccupied successive generations of architects and designers.
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Drawing on Humanity's Animal Nature
PARIS — Karel Appel would start drawing by shimmering bright muck or line around until it eventually formed into semi-abstract philosophical lava, or monkey shit, or the poetry of release.
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How the Naming of Clouds Changed the Skies of Art
The clouds in many 19th-century European paintings look drastically different than those in the 18th century.
Comics
Missed Museum Gift Shopportunities
The fine art of merchandising.