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Dreamlike Drawings in a Cavernous Coal Chamber
MEMPHIS — Down in a former coal chamber, accessed through a stained glass restoration studio, is Tops Gallery.
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A Photographer Documents the Medication Generation
While teaching a photography workshop to American students in Paris in 2008, French photojournalist Baptiste Lignel was shocked to learn that roughly half of the students in his class were taking some kind of prescription psychiatric medication.
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Scale, Sculpture, and Specificity Prevail at Miami Beach's Untitled Fair
MIAMI BEACH — In a cavernous tent right on the sands of Miami Beach, Untitled Art Fair is opening this Wednesday with a sprawling group of international galleries.
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Pulitzer Arts Foundation's Game Developers-in-Residence Expand Digital Experience of African Art
Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis recently opened Kota: Digital Excavations in African Art, an exhibition exploring the ways that technology can be used to foster a deeper understanding and engagement with art.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6Nzk4NjYsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjozMzQwNTksImN
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Compartmentalized Compassion: A 30-Year Survey of AIDS-Related Art in the US
TACOMA, Wash. — The Art AIDS America exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum intends to move away from postmodern interpretations of art towards enjoining the viewer’s empathy.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a serial brain tissue thief strikes a museum, a suicidal man attacks a Picasso-inspired exhibition, and an art dealer's grandson sues a gallery over a $25 million Modigliani.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, the Hammer Museum honors World AIDS Day, artist-designed billboards spring up all over the city, Machine Project opens a sports bar, and more.
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Online Archive Commemorates Artists Affected by or Lost to AIDS
Artists whose lives were affected by AIDS now have a space dedicated entirely to showcasing and honoring their works.
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A South African Mural Tradition Transposed to Canvas and Clay
CAPE TOWN — Does art have the capacity to restore our disposition? I would venture a contingent response based on my experience of South African octogenarian Esther Mahlangu and her paintings, which evoke, albeit remotely, the play of stained glass windows and come across as both therapeutic and ele
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Drawing an Afro-Future with the Past and Present
LOS ANGELES — There is no mistaking the depth of investment in Flight Risk, Robert Pruitt’s new show at Koplin Del Rio.
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The Senate Finance Committee Is Scrutinizing Art Collectors’ Private Museums
The private art museum trend has become so prevalent in the US that Uncle Sam is taking notice.
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Where Are the Archives of AIDS- and HIV-Related Art in the US?
There are several US organizations and libraries that contain key archives documenting art practices and work linked with AIDS and artists living with HIV.