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Cinematic Illusions of Destruction
The dismal, desert landscape in Wawrzyniec Kolbusz's latest photographic series looks much like the bombed-out terrain we often see in documentary war images.
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Artists Pick Artists: Clive Hodgson
Clive Hodgson started as an abstract painter, switched to figuration, then turned back to abstraction after his distaste for narrative and object-based painting grew; he found that it was no longer tenable.
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25 Years of Photographing Women Artists
The fact that female artists have enjoyed significantly less limelight than their male counterparts is part of what makes the images in 100 Portraits: Women Artists at LIU Brooklyn's Salena Art Gallery so satisfying.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week there's an Iranian New Year's celebration at LACMA, a performance festival at Bergamot Station, a 24-hour queer pornography marathon, and more.
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Mankind's Mess, Subsumed by Beautiful Landscapes
In the middle of the night, photographer Simon Norfolk dips a garden rake, wrapped in shaggy white carpet — a makeshift wick — into petroleum and sets it on fire.
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Gordon Parks's Tribute to the Great Migration, 65 Years Past Due
Few magazines disseminated the American Dream as widely as Life did in the years following the Second World War.
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Artist Banned from Stedelijk Museum for Threatening to Piss on the Art
The Dutch artist Rob van Koningsbruggen has been banned for life from the Stedelijk Museum after repeatedly threatening to relieve himself on works at the Amsterdam institution.
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A Painter's Reflective (and Reflected) Photographic Portraits
PARIS — The use of mirrors in art has been a rich one, used by Pop, Kinetic, Minimal, and Conceptual artists. In this long tradition, the Jeu de Paume currently offers an additional point of reference.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week's art crime blotter: Uncanny canine sculpture goes for a walk, German art dealer gets six years, and Navy veteran accused of improper flag use in baby photo shoot.
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Photographing the Destructive Isolation of a US Military Base in Afghanistan
LONDON — The documentary Restrepo (2010) opens with a dramatic shot of a helicopter whirring through the craggy brown peaks, green fields, and deep valleys of Afghanistan.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, Donatello has a New York moment, the films of the Forcefield artist collective are in the spotlight, Dread Scott discusses revolution and art while propaganda art is the topic in Bushwick, and more.
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Fred Wilson on Isamu Noguchi's Multifaceted Modernism
On a dismal, rainy Saturday in Manhattan, as dirty snow slowly melted to reveal winter’s detritus outside, the cheerful, humorous, and ever approachable Fred Wilson led a group of gallerygoers through Isamu Noguchi’s Variations.