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ArtRx NYC
It's the middle of January and you're definitely not going to enough art stuff, so we have your guide to fill the void.
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Displaying Three Decades of LGBTQ Art Censored by Museums
In Irreverent: A Celebration of Censorship, opening next month at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York, all of the art has previously been censored from major museums.
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Photo LA Is Not Art Basel, and That's OK
LOS ANGELES — Photography is a schizophrenic medium. It has long served documentary, fashion, and scientific purposes, only more recently has it gained mainstream recognition as a fine art. These dichotomies carry over to the Photo LA fair.
In Brief
Spain Arrests Three Alleged Art Forgers
Three suspected members of an art forgery ring were arrested in the Spanish cities of Zaragoza and Tarragona, El Pais reported.
Art
At Mass MoCA, the Pleasures of Reading XXXposed
The Bibliotecaphilia exhibition opening at Mass MoCA next week features filmmaker Clayton Cubitt’s provocative Hysterical Literature film series, which depicts women reading literature aloud and orgasming.
Comics
Looking at Your Old Drawings
The other day I was putting some drawings away …
News
Zoom in on 100 Million Stars with the Hubble Telescope's Largest Released Image
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has released the largest ever image of the Andromeda galaxy, opening up 100 million stars and star clusters to public exploration.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, tax breaks for billionaire art collectors, architecture of art fairs, assholes who think they're geniuses, the problem with #AllLivesMatter, a slave who freed herself, literary California, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Separation
This week, amNewYork reported on a recent study from the University of Missouri investigating smartphone separation anxiety.
Books
Language as Maternal
George Oppen published his first book, Discrete Series, in 1934; his second, The Materials, emerged 28 years later, in 1962. But even Oppen and Bunting were raring to go in comparison to Wong May, whose third collection of poems, Superstitions, came out in 1978.
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John Keats and Martin Puryear, and the Latter’s Renewal of “Negative Capability”
Recently, and rather unexpectedly, the term “negative capability,” which was coined by the poet John Keats, came to mind. Was this an outlandish association to make while looking at Martin Puryear’s debut exhibition at Matthew Marks?
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Capturing the Quotidian in a Fine Mesh of Crosshatching: Paintings and Drawings by Karl Stevens
Karl Stevens’ whisper-soft graphite drawings and smooth-as-ice oil paintings evoke comparison to Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres yet portray neither odalisques nor aristocrats. Best known as a graphic novelist (Guilty; Whatever), Stevens’ canvases and sketches, like his comic strips and watercolors, r