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Curator Admits Manifesta Art Biennial in Russia Is in Trouble
The chief curator of Manifesta, the roving European Biennial of Contemporary Art, told Deutsche Welle that the biennial has hit an "impasse: nothing’s happening."
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Memories Are Made of This: Tom Duncan’s Constructed Past
If the so-called “greatest generation,” those that fought in World War II, have mostly passed on, their children, the pre-boomers born just before and during that conflict are still around.
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New Subway Art Installation Brings the Home into the Commute
Three stations on the M subway line in Ridgewood, Queens now have permanent art installations that bring moments of home into the commute.
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Senegalese Government Shuts Down Exhibitions Addressing Queer Issues
The government of Senegal has ordered the closure or cancelation of all exhibitions dealing with queer issues in the 2014 edition of Dak'Art, the 11th Biennale of Contemporary African Art, The Art Newspaper reported.
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Two More Artists, Chto Delat and US Social Forum, Withdraw from Creative Time Exhibition
Two more artists have joined Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency in withdrawing from the traveling iteration of Creative Time's Living as Form exhibition curated by Nato Thompson, Hyperallergic has learned.
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An Artist Grows a Seed in the Palm of His Hand
CHICAGO — Joshua Kent stands barefoot, his palm outstretched and relaxed, in it a mid-size rose quartz crystal nuzzled against a loose pod of soil.
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Performance Artist Does the Impossible, Shows Up Courbet's "Origin of the World"
A twentysomething woman sits down in front of Gustave Courbet's "Origin of the World" (1866), pulls up her dress, splays her legs, and shows her vulva, clitoris, and possibly part of her vagina to the visitors in the gallery.
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Art Movements
NYPL closes Reading Room after falling plaster, Gurlitt art in limbo, new leaders for Picasso Museum and Hirshhorn, and more from the week in art news.
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A View from the Easel
Artist studios in California, New York, Ontario, Oregon, and Pennsylvania.
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Mimi Smith's Battle with Chase Manhattan Bank
Censored, blown up by terrorists, and the subject of a four-year legal battle with Chase Manhattan Bank, Mimi Smith’s 1982 installation "October 1, 1981," an artwork inspired by television news, was briefly the subject of the news itself.
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Faster than Sound: Color in the Age of Silent Film
Looking back now, there is the impression that all old silent films were black and white, the advent of sound in the mid-to-late 1920s marking the first great milestone on the march to our 3D, high-definition contemporary world. Yet by the early 1920s — years before cinema found its voice — 80% of m
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From Funeral Factory to Parisian Art Hope
PARIS — One of the newest cultural centers in Paris took over a cavernous funeral factory in 2008. Now established, it's still striving to bring contemporary practice into the city's art dialogue.