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Rubin Museum Opens Expanded Buddhist Shrine Room
Flickering light and faint sounds of chanting accompany the Rubin Museum of Art's expanded Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room, where visitors to the Chelsea museum can pause in a space of contemplation.
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Considering Chocolate's Colonial History
MEXICO CITY — Chocolate is very versatile.
Art
A Hardworking, Sincere, and Studiously Inept Painter
“Josh Smith: Sculpture” is how the sign reads. Yet behind it is a conservatively installed exhibition of drawings, conventionally framed and tastefully spaced on Luhring Augustine’s neutral white walls.
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Rainbow Sherbert Collages of Calamity
The clash of cheery colors with destructive scenes gives this artist's images a subversive, dissonant power.
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Sum of the Arts
Number of surviving copies of the misprinted 1631 "Sinners' Bible" that demanded "Thou shalt commit adultery" = 10
Opinion
“What Do You Have in Lavender Blush?" A New Tool to Buy Art by Color
Collectors choose to buy art based on their interest in the work itself, not whether it matches the color of their living room drapes, right?
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Intricate, Beautiful, Raunchy: Japan Embraces Its Ancient Erotic Print Tradition
Known as shunga ("spring pictures"), these highly erotic sexual scenes comprise a genre of their own, and an exhibition devoted entirely to them has opened for the first time in their country of origin.
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Synchronizing the Cycles of Capitalism and the Female Body
Sara Shaoul’s Strange Labor looks to expand our understanding of the self in the world by examining the interconnectedness of female body patterns and sociopolitical cycles.
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Praising the Scientific Contributions of Clergy Naturalists
Among the 18 million specimens in the oldest natural history museum in the United States are contributions from missionaries and ministers who practiced science alongside their faith.
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7 Artists, 25 Pages Each, 1 Half-Century Later: Revisiting the Xerox Book
In 1968, Seth Siegelaub and John Wendler published the first edition of the so-called "Xerox Book." The untitled publication, which was conceived as an exhibition in itself — and is currently the subject of a show at Paula Cooper Gallery — is now considered a seminal artist book.
Interview
A Photographer Who Turns Viewers into Voyeurs
Matthew Morrocco arrived at the café fashionably late, wearing an army jacket and floral print flats. Before sitting down he ordered his coffee.
News
The Most Endangered Heritage Sites of 2016, from Cuban Art Schools to the Oldest Underwater City
The World Monuments Fund has announced 50 sites around the globe that are in danger of disappearing due to development, war, neglect, natural disaster, or deliberate destruction.