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The Little-Known Engineer Who Made the First Abstract Paintings in the US
MUSKEGON, Mich. — What’s especially significant about Manierre Dawson is that he made his breakthrough to non-objective imagery prior to any exposure to modernist art.
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An Ode to Tiny Love
Imagine falling in love every day of your life.
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Florida's Failed Moorish Utopia Plans a Better Future Through Art
Domes in muted colors and geometric murals adorn the buildings in Opa-locka, which, despite its abundance of Moorish revival architecture, is a long way from north Africa.
Opinion
An Artist's Farewell to a Self-Made New York Gallerist
Monya Rowe started her space not with a degree in curating or art history but by selling her eggs to a fertility clinic and through experience in gallery settings.
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Your Concise Guide to the Bushwick Art Book and Zine Fair
Blonde Art Books, Brooklyn-based proponent of self-publishing communities and local arts initiatives, is holding their third installment of Bushwick Art Book and Zine Fair at SIGNAL gallery this weekend.
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Wanted: One Corpse for Art
When a person dies, his loved ones typically deliver the body to a morgue before it reaches the final destination; Icelandic artist Snorri Ásmundsson is requesting that someone take a detour on that route to participate in his art.
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Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Offer Dueling Accounts of Detroit's Industrial Glory
DETROIT — The Detroit Institute of Arts’s major exhibition Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit closes on Sunday. This show was in the works for a decade, long before the city’s bankruptcy and the grand bargain, which shifted the ownership of the art from the city to the museum.
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Subversive Zines and Local Lore at Lima’s First Independent Book Fair
LIMA, Peru — In early July, Lima's first independent book fair took place in the municipal square of Barranco, a neighborhood brimming with young artists on pastel-colored bikes and covered in street art that mixes aerosol graffiti with Peruvian patterns and iconography.
Opinion
Disney Does the Right Thing and Removes Bill Cosby Bust from Theme Park
Bill Cosby was once the United States' favorite funny man.
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Russia Releases "Safe Selfie" Guide After String of Deaths and Injuries
Snapping selfies can have pretty serious effects, like damaging art in the quest for likes. In Russia, though, death has become a troublingly common consequence of taking selfies.
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Artists Wanted for Public Art Commission in Birmingham
An initiative between the Birmingham Museum of Art, REV Birmingham, and the City of Birmingham seeks proposals from artists living and working in the Southeast to develop original work to be incorporated into creative wayfinding signs for downtown Birmingham.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6OD
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The Postminimal Zen of Boxed-Up Noguchis
If you visit the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City this summer, someone at the front desk will let you know that the institution is currently undergoing renovation and they regret that all the art in the garden is temporarily off view.