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ArtRx LA
This week, there's a rock doc on Riot Grrrl godmothers, a book signing for a new collection of work by street photographer Ed Templeton, the closing of Max Hooper Schneider's messy science experiments, and more!
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Holy Hell: Critic Alleges Major Restoration of Chartres Cathedral Is "Fake"
An intensive restoration of France's Chartres Cathedral that replicates the interior's original colors and patterns has earned a polemical rebuke from the critic Martin Filler, who charged that the method makes "authentic artifacts look fake."
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The Colorful Past of Huguette Caland
For the last four decades, artist Huguette Caland has largely languished in obscurity.
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The Rude Underbelly of 19th-Century English Gentility
BATH, UK — The small city of Bath has over time become a symbol of classic English gentility and, at first glance, the Holburne Museum conforms to the pattern. But there is a temporary exhibition on display at the moment of prints by the caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson that undermines that whole myth
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Undoing a 19th-Century Art Restorer's Overzealous Handiwork
The 19th-century art restorer Raffaele Gargiulo was so good at reconstructing Greek vases, one antiquarian called it a "dangerous perfection for knowledge." Filling in broken gaps with his own paintings, mending cracks with brass staples, his work was a potential threat to history.
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Monochrome Sets You Free
I discovered the work of Ha Chonghyun in 2000 at an exhibition mounted at the Gwangju City Art Museum, curated by the art critic Yoon Jin Sup.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, Skowhegan, Flux Factory, Thomas Struth, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Reuven Israel, and much much more.
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Jacolby Satterwhite Keeps Reality Virtual
LOS ANGELES — Jacolby Satterwhite’s solo exhibition How lovly is me being as I am is born out of a maternal virtual hive mind.
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How to Punch a Monet and Get Away with It
Punching a painting by Claude Monet is never a good idea, as Andrew Shannon learned the hard way last week when he was sentenced to five years in prison for putting his fist through "Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat" (1874) at the National Gallery of Ireland. But if it's a digital likeness of
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Considering Brazil's Racial Heritage
The 18th-century Brazilian sculptor Aleijadinho was the mixed-race son of a black slave and one of his country's most legendary artists. In the gold-rich state of Minas Gerais, where millions lost their lives in the mines, tourists still pay to visit the immaculate baroque churches he embellished.
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Order and Disorder in Albert Oehlen’s Fabric Paintings
Albert Oehlen’s current show at Skarstedt, a selection of 14 “fabric paintings” made between 1992–96, is explosive. Explosive as in a burst or the arrival of a fiery red comet on earth.