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The Artist as Conjurer of Illusions and Truths
CLINTON, NY — There are multiple magics at work in the art of Renée Stout.
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Interactive Art About Climate Change in a City Where It Will Wreak Havoc
HIALEAH, Fla. — When Florida Governor Rick Scott took office in 2011 and appointed Herschel Vinyard, Jr. as the director of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (D.E.P.), a curious rule went into effect: D.E.P. employees were not to use the terms “global warming” or “climate change” in
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A Portrait-Painting Robot with Its Own Artistic Style
In the coming robot world takeover, the art world won’t be spared.
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In Five Decades of Self-Portraits, an Artist Refuses to Tone Down Her Feelings
DETROIT — Brenda Goodman has been steadily doing her thing for decades, moving from early success within the Cass Corridor movement in her native Detroit, to a varied career in New York City, and finally to her current retreat in the relative sanctity of the Catskills.
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University of Kentucky Covers Up a Racially Charged Depression-Era Mural Amid Community Debate
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Universities across the country are having productive conversations about race and representation, but what happens when campus public art is caught in the crossfire between a desire to preserve history and cultural sensitivity?
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The Shifting Seasons of One of China’s Oldest Public Parks
CHENGDU, China — The first public parks began appearing in China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but it wasn’t until after the Communist revolution that they became centers of urban life.
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50 Reinterpretations of the Eames Wire Chair
The French social and education arts organization La Source has partnered with Vitra Design Museum to invite artists, designers, and architects from around France to revisit the classic chair and add their own contemporary twists.
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Fashioning an Identity for a Puerto Rican Painter on the Cusp of Modernism
The current exhibition of paintings by Francisco Oller at the Brooklyn Museum is a provocative and difficult show — a collision of curatorial strategies and recalcitrant artwork that defies the interpretive armature.
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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.