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Between Mediums, Layers, and Incongruity at a New Brooklyn Gallery
In the not too distant past a painter would happily yield to the call of traditional materials for what would have seemed at the time rather obvious reasons.
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A Painter Who Left New York and Abstraction Behind, and Never Looked Back
LONDON — Once an artist is written about, curated, collected, and fitted within a neat framework, there is this sense that the artist has somehow been “figured out.”
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ArtRx NYC
There's so much good stuff happening right now, it's hard to know where to start — maybe with a class on the Sumerians or a panel about the feminist legacy of painting?
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Your Concise Guide to the 2015 Bushwick Open Studios
The weather's getting hotter — at least it was last weekend — which can only mean one thing: it's time for Bushwick Open Studios!
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Artist Detained for Meme-ing Chinese President
If you're an artist living in China, take some advice from the example of Dai Jianyong: don't make potty jokes about the president.
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New York's Oldest Museums: Where Are They Now?
Old NYC, a project by software engineer Dan Vanderkam, launched last month with thousands of images from the New York Public Library mapped across the five boroughs.
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UN Says ISIS's Cultural Destruction “May Amount to War Crimes"
Last Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly passed a non-binding resolution on ISIS's destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq, officially calling the group's actions "war crimes."
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Remains of 18th-Century Slave Ship Find Safe Harbor at Smithsonian
Long-lost between two reefs off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, are the fragmented remains of a Portuguese slave ship, now identified centuries later as the first known wreck of its kind.
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Emails Suggest Shell Pressured Science Museum to Alter Climate Change Exhibits
The question of whether oil giants seek to control the messages at museums they sponsor may have been answered.
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Between Carnival and Performance Art: Nine Artists on Masquerade
NEW ORLEANS — It’s astonishing that in 2015 a group exhibition of nine artists of color can still be impressive based on statistics and context alone.
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Listening Is the New Performing
The Whitney Museum of American Art made a particularly savvy choice by teaming up with Issue Project Room to present David Rosenboom’s Propositional Music, a three-day concert series spanning 50 years of his extraordinary compositions.
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60 Art World Luminaries Pressure UAE on "Chilling Precedent" Set by Recent Bans
The directors of some of the world's most important art institutions, including the Tate and MoMA, have written a letter to UAE-affiliated art organizations asserting that "artists and academics should be allowed free passage to conduct research and work that is done in a peaceful and productive man