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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Iceland jails geyser-dyeing "landscape painter," artist loses canvases left in alley, and offensive anti-homeless signs irk Illinoisans.
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An Artistic History of Death
Memento Mori — Looking at Death in Art and Illustration at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery considers death's role in society over the past 500 years.
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Pursue an Artistic Career or a Lifelong Passion at the National Academy School's Studio Art Intensive
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How a Queer Asian Artist Infiltrated the New York Scene Through Dress-Up and Self-Portraiture
As an Asian boy growing up middle-class in America, I was taught assimilation was key.
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Your Concise Guide to the 2015 Venice Biennale
This year's Venice Biennale promises to be one of the most political.
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ArtRx NYC
This week we remember the Armenian Genocide, celebrate queer cartoonists, debate the necessity of all-women exhibitions, think about how posters work, and much more.
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US History, Queer Life, and Witchcraft: How AA Bronson, Somehow, Comes Together
LONDON — Hexenmeister, AA Bronson’s first solo show at Maureen Paley, calls to mind his recent House of Shame at the Gwangju Biennial, featuring Bronson’s particular combination of queer themes and shamanic practices.
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The Surprisingly Mundane Landscapes of Holocaust Sites
“When I looked at those photographs, something broke,” critic Susan Sontag once wrote, recalling the day in July 1945 she first saw pictures of Nazi concentration camps.
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New York City Museum Celebrates the Culture of Earthquake-Ravaged Nepal
The Rubin Museum of Art opened an installation of Nepalese art today to launch its Honoring Nepal programming series, which celebrates the culture of the earthquake-devastated country.
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Expo Milano Opens Despite Delays, Denouncements, and Riots
Though Expo Milano 2015, the enormous fair of national, nonprofit, and corporate pavilions built on the outskirts of Milan, opened as scheduled on May 1, its launch was overshadowed by violent protests, costly delays, and denouncements from one of its original architects and Pope Francis.
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What Is the Role of an Intellectual During a Revolution?
ISTANBUL — Last Saturday Yassin al-Haj Saleh, one of the most vocal intellectuals of the Syrian Civil War or Revolution (depending on your perspective), attended a screening of Our Terrible Country (2014) at SALT Galata.
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'Chain Reaction,' the 2015 Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition, Opens May 8
Very naturally, after spending two academic years working side by side, critiquing and inspiring each other, a subliminal dialogue takes place between artists working in the same program.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6NDgwNiwiYXQiOjIwLCJidCI6MCwiY20iOjI0MjkzMCwiY2giOjE5MzAsImNyIjo4NDgwNDEsIm