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How the 2015 ADAA Art Fair Changed My Life
It didn't. I lied. I'm sorry. But I did like these things at the Art Dealers Association of America's (ADAA) art fair.
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Art on Paper Joins the Armory Week Fold
Despite Art on Paper's name, the work on view at the first-time Armory Week fair includes as many different materials as at any other fair, with art created on paper and art inspired by paper on view.
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The Problematic Elegance of Carl Andre
BEACON, NY — Carl Andre’s 50-year, career-spanning retrospective at Dia:Beacon is coming down this weekend. If you think that Modernism is god, that its spawn, Minimalism, is the lord, and that Andre is her messenger, you’d best catch the show before it’s gone.
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The Bewitching Geometry of the Moving Image Art Fair
Moving Image would be Emily Dickinson's favorite art fair.
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Traces of Extinct Animals at the Armory Show
The animals have gone missing from booth 844. Framed nature prints crowd the holly walls, but the auks, cougars, wolves, and woodpeckers that were once their subjects have been cut out, leaving blank spaces behind in a sort of artistic animal Rapture.
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What ISIS Destroys, Why, and Why We Must Document It
The destruction at the Mosul Museum raises questions about why certain items were destroyed, while others were spared.
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A Dying Wish to See Rembrandt Paintings, Fulfilled
After hours this week at the Rijksmuseum's Late Rembrandt exhibition, which focuses on the artist's final years, three terminally ill patients viewed the paintings in solitude.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Hans Haacke's "Gift Horse" was unveiled in London's Trafalgar Square, the Smithsonian and Palace of Versailles banned selfie sticks, and a 68-year-old German pensioner commenced his search for the long lost "Amber Room."
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Dioramas Reveal the Desertification of Mongolia
According to a 2008 survey, more than 1,200 rivers, 2,600 lakes, and 93,700 springs in Mongolia have disappeared, partly thanks to industrial mining.
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A Haunting Installation Transforms the Phillips Collection
WASHINGTON, DC — The main building of the Phillips Collection, the oldest modern art museum in America, is a sprawling, neo-Georgian affair, buckling beneath the weight of its dark, mahogany décor.
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An Era-Defining 1930s Mural of American Excess and Industry Is Revived
After its acquisition in 2012, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is debuting Thomas Hart Benton's 1930s "America Today" mural not as a painting, but as a room.
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There's Nothing Sexier Than an Independent Art Fair
"Viewer discretion advised: graphic sexual imagery," reads some floor text that nobody seemed to notice or bother to read this afternoon as they entered Mendes Wood DM's booth at the Independent.