Art
A British Photographer in 19th-Century Peking
In 1870, 29-year-old British photographer Thomas Child moved to Peking — as Beijing was formerly known — to work as a gas engineer for the Imperial Maritime Customs Service.
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Among Intimates at New York's Queer Experimental Film Festival
When I arrived early on opening night of this year’s MIX NYC festival at a former manufacturing space in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, I heard a rumor that there used to be a panty factory there.
Art
Mining the Rich Interspace Between Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture
CAPE TOWN — In Black Passage, Nitegeka deploys wood and paint to literally and boldly take over the gallery, arranging his forms into the white, tamed, and profoundly coded space.
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An Artist’s Conceptual Photo-Booth Compositions from the 1970s
Long before Photo Booth was a computer application, Jared Bark used analog photo booths in Times Square bars to create dazzling tiled black-and-white compositions.
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From Glittering Mosque to Miniature Stadium, Highlights of the 2015 World Architecture Festival
The World Architecture Festival, the world's biggest international architectural event, has just announced its 35 winners of 2015.
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Three Resign from International Museum Committee Board, Demand New Leadership
Three museum directors have resigned from their positions as board members for the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), dissatisfied with how its top figures have handled and responded to debates that first emerged earlier this year over censorship.
Art
Colonialism and Power: A Conversation About the Met's Kongo Show
This is a rare exhibition, attempting to countermand the exoticism of central African civilizations that was historically impelled by the objects’ display in princely European cabinets of curiosities.
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New York’s Only Waterproof (and Affordable) Studio Space: A Steel Container
Say you’re one of the countless artists in New York City struggling to find an affordable studio space.
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Isadora Duncan in Watercolor, by the Artist Who Painted Her Thousands of Times
At the Paris studio of Auguste Rodin in 1906, Siberia-born American painter Abraham Walkowitz met modern dancer Isadora Duncan.
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Glittery Sylphs, Decorated Camels, Cracked Earthen Paintings, and Botched Machismo
DALLAS — While heterogeneous in form, cultural reference, and concept, the four exhibitions at the center of the Dallas Contemporary 2015 season openers stand together seamlessly.
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The Artist Is Pissed: Ulay Sues Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović, the world's only household name performance artist — Shia LaBeouf notwithstanding — is being sued by her former collaborator and lover, the German artist Ulay.
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At the New Museum, Jim Shaw Plays Artist and Curator
The title of Jim Shaw’s current retrospective at the New Museum, The End is Here, comes from the title of his first zine made in 1978, displayed in a vitrine on the first floor of the exhibition.