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Artists of the African Diaspora Cast Off the Legacy of Displacement
A solitary figure standing against the far wall of the gallery, Sable Elyse Smith says: “My father was a drug dealer and loved me.”
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South Korean Art Community Demands Institutional Reform Following Controversial Museum Appointment
The appointment of a new director to South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art last week has extenuated the concerns of the country's art community over issues of government and institutional censorship.
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University of Southern California BFA Students Speak Out and Burn Work in Solidarity with #USC7
LOS ANGELES — Since the entire first year MFA class at USC Roski School of Art and Design dropped out in May, the turbulence surrounding the program has been well documented, but little attention has been paid to the undergraduates.
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At Home with Vilhelm Hammershøi
The room is quiet. We stand on the fringes, in the shadows, divided from the softly luminous space that’s momentarily brought into the light.
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A Message from Program Director Daniel Tucker of Moore College of Art & Design
In many ways running a graduate department at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia is like an art project – assembling people, framing ideas, transforming raw material. In terms of people, we have some of the most thoughtful and talented people in the city and nation on our faculty.[http://
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Documenting the Vanishing Hermitages of the Egyptian Desert
Constructed from stacked rocks and carved into remote mountainsides, the desert hermitages of Egypt and Sudan are barely perceptible in the arid landscape.
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Two Decades of Life in Prison Drilled into Ostrich Eggs
Beginning in his early twenties, Gil Batle spent two decades in and out of five California prisons, mostly for fraud and forgery of documents from IDs to checks and credit cards.
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Inside the Skeleton of Rem Koolhaas's Under-Construction Miami Beach Forum
MIAMI BEACH — A new cultural center designed by Rem Koolhaas with OMA is aiming to give Miami Beach a year-round multidisciplinary arts hub.
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Tate Modern’s Absorbing but Haphazard Look at Global Pop Art
LONDON — The World Goes Pop is an exhilarating collection filled with fizzing energy, so its curatorial messiness can be forgiven.
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Beauty Is in the Eye of the Phone-Holder
It's all relative.
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Composing a Symphony of War with Instruments and Everyday Objects
What does war sound like? For Samson Young, it’s calm, somewhat foreboding — human, organic, often silent but with bursts of technological noise.
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Olafur Eliasson's Sundial of Melting Icebergs Clocks In at Half-Past Wasteful
PARIS — In the aftermath of November’s terrorist attacks and the ruling Socialist Party’s meltdown following a strong first-round showing for Marine Le Pen’s far-right Front National party, I glummly went to the Place du Panthéon to see Ice Watch Paris, an exhibition of melting icebergs by Danish re