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A Town Is Not a Museum, Appeals Court Rules
In settling the dispute of where one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century is buried, a ruling last week declared that a town can't be treated like a museum.
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Basquiat in the American South
NEW ORLEANS — To see Basquiat and the Bayou, the “exhibition within an exhibition” that by general consensus is the must-see component of the sprawling Prospect.3: Notes for Now biennial triennial that opened in New Orleans on October 25, you need to make your way to the top floor of the Ogden Museu
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How Artists Keep Warm in the Winter
It all starts with an idea.
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The Psychedelic and Porcine Provocations of Oreet Ashery
LONDON — If you like bacon and don’t have a menial job, here’s the show to make you feel bad.
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A Manhattan Waiting Room, Rediscovered in Park Slope
You could be forgiven for thinking there's been a minor rip in the space-time continuum if you came across Corina Reynolds's exhibition at Open Source Gallery by chance.
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Getty Unveils Unpublished Cache of Joseph Cornell's Letters
Joseph Cornell's curious admirers now have something to get excited about, thanks to the Getty Research Institute’s announcement yesterday that it has acquired a cache of 33 previously unpublished letters between Cornell and one of his first assistants, Susanna De Maria Wilson.
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What Do Classical Antiquities Look Like in Color?
Everyone knows that classical sculpture is white. Think of the gleaming marble of artworks like the Belvedere Torso and "Laocoön and His Sons" — the whiteness imparts a kind of purity, a sense of being the ground zero of Western culture, the original from which an entire civilization's canon has spr
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Blood, Guts, and Corporate Sponsorships
Even for a jaded explorer in cinema’s nether regions, Northville Cemetery Massacre is a sleazy trip. “It’s a pretty nasty exploitation film,” Jon Dieringer, the programmer behind Anthology Film Archives’ current series, Industrial Terror, concedes, before detailing the specifics: rape, police brutal
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Photographs from a 1950s Cross-Dressing Retreat
An elegant black envelope arrived in my mailbox last week. Inside is a square, burgundy-colored folder containing a catalogue of 1950 and ’60s snapshots. On the cover, an off-white, hand-lettered logo reads “Casa Susanna.”
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Minneapolis Mayor Moves to Cut Public Art Funding
Minneapolis won't be getting any new public art next year if the city's mayor gets her way.
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Chris Ofili's Gone and Dung It Again
A more descriptive subtitle for Chris Ofili: Day and Night, the New Museum's dazzling survey of Chris Offili's paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, would be "Day and Night and Day."
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Transforming Queer Soldiers' Dreams into Art
SAN FRANCISCO — Can the stories of queer soldiers being marginalized, brutalized, and disenfranchised in the United States be considered dreams, or would it be more appropriate to call them nightmares?