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The Digital Lives of Public Art Considered in City Hall Park
Digital artifacts manifested as public sculpture populate the Public Art Fund’s Image Objects in Lower Manhattan's City Hall Park.
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How to Make a New Body of Work
Imagine you're on top of a mountain …
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Required Reading
This week, history of barbecue, Damien Hirst's mid-life crisis, conceptual poetry's bigotry, the ISIS dildo flag, a crow rides a bald eagle, the first 3D-printed office, and more.
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Weekend Words: Bank
"The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks." —Valerie Solanis
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Riding Backwards to See What You Missed
In his introduction to Clarence Major’s new poetry collection From Now On, Yusef Komunyakaa hints, even if he does not directly state, that there is a kind of natural quietude about Major’s work.
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Stanley Whitney in the 1990s
Years ago I saw a drawing in a modest exhibition at the Centre Pompidou that Picasso made on a sheet of stiff cardboard while he was on a picnic with his friends, Michel and Louise Leiris. Not one to waste space, Picasso divided the surface into a grid, and in each small square he made a quick conto
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“We Need a New Skin Color”: The Racial Imagination of Dada
The centenary of Dada is almost upon us. If the movement had an identifiable beginning, it was certainly at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in 1916, where Richard Huelsenbeck, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, Hans Arp and others gathered for events that have come down to us in d
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Agnes Martin: In Two New Books, A Life Revealed
How does one begin to tell — or unravel — the story of Agnes Martin (1912–2004), one of modern art’s most original and self-effacing artists, especially when so many aspects of her personal history are shrouded in mystery, misinformation, myth and misunderstanding?
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Staring Back: 400 Years of Portraits at the Morgan
Life Lines: Portrait Drawings from Dürer to Picasso at the Morgan Library & Museum may not venture very far beyond canonical European artists, but it uncovers richness and diversity within a circumscribed field, especially in the work of its two anchors, Albrecht Dürer and Pablo Picasso.
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A View from the Easel
Artists from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Washington, and the UK.
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Wall Street's 18th-Century Slave Market Finally Recognized with Historic Marker
Whether under Dutch, British, or American control, New York's early development was supported by slavery.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the Acropolis starts accepting credit cards amid Greek cash crisis, 8 million animal mummies found in Egyptian catacombs, and Marilyn Monroe's grave marker sells at auction for 100 times its pre-sale estimate.