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The Provincialism of Sigmar Polke
The Museum of Modern Art’s current offerings include, just possibly, the world’s most brilliant student of a certain kind of art. The student would be the German postmodernist Sigmar Polke (1941–2010), and the work in question would be pieces dating from after approximately 1960, when art was turnin
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Edward Steichen's War Years
Edward Steichen was the first modern fashion photographer, best known for shadowy portraits of silver-screen stars like Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, and Louise Brooks. That the dark room master spent two years during World War I developing photographic surveillance techniques is less common kno
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Artists Probe Urban Agriculture
While food culture has shifted to local production and sustainable farming, there's also a vein of art taking these issues into projects that mix agriculture with activism.
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Artists Probe Urban Agriculture
While food culture has shifted to local production and sustainable farming, there's also a vein of art taking these issues into projects that mix agriculture with activism.
In Brief
Painter Charged in $1.9 Million Pollock Fraud
An artist has been charged with selling $1.9 million worth of Jackson Pollock paintings, all of which turned out to be counterfeits, the New York Post reported.
In Brief
Painter Charged in $1.9 Million Pollock Fraud
An artist has been charged with selling $1.9 million worth of Jackson Pollock paintings, all of which turned out to be counterfeits, the New York Post reported.
Opinion
Homeless Fonts Are a Feel-Good Fail
In recent years, homeless people have been put to an impressively creative, and deeply problematic, range of uses: as wifi hot spots, as subjects for police training, as publicly minded art, and now, a new one — as typography.
Opinion
Homeless Fonts Are a Feel-Good Fail
In recent years, homeless people have been put to an impressively creative, and deeply problematic, range of uses: as wifi hot spots, as subjects for police training, as publicly minded art, and now, a new one — as typography.
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Raccoons to the Rescue: Insider Reveals Kara Walker Pest Antagonists
Where are all the sugar-seeking pests at Kara Walker's multi-ton installation made of the stuff, "A Subtlety”? We investigated this aspect of the show at the soon-to-be leveled Domino Sugar Factory a few weeks ago.
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Raccoons to the Rescue: Insider Reveals Kara Walker Pest Antagonists
Where are all the sugar-seeking pests at Kara Walker's multi-ton installation made of the stuff, "A Subtlety”? We investigated this aspect of the show at the soon-to-be leveled Domino Sugar Factory a few weeks ago.
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The Veteran Experience, Before and Behind the Lens
BEACON, New York — War & Memory is drawn from the archives of The Homecoming Project, a photo-based storytelling outfit interested in fostering conversations about the experience of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.