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Nancy Cunard's 'Black Atlantic'
PARIS — The display for Black Atlantic by Nancy Cunard at the Musée du quai Branly evokes a period when the artistic and literary avant-garde became intertwined with the political and the glamorous.
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4 Long Island City Art Institutions Launch Free Shuttle Bus
It's no secret that Long Island City art institutions have long had problems drumming up foot traffic to their spaces in western Queens, but four of them have joined forces because they believe a shuttle bus may just help.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Art Online
“Thank you guys for coming,” Alexis Clements said last Thursday night to a small crowd at the Brooklyn Museum largely comprised of women. “Actually, I shouldn’t say 'guys,'” she interrupted herself, “Thank you all for coming.” That introduction set the tone for a panel that the playwright, performer
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Unmanned Archival Vehicle: Wafaa Bilal at Driscoll Babcock
For whom do images of a conflict zone, as those Wafaa Bilal has recreated in his Ashes Series, bear witness? How is this memory constituted? In his first solo show at Driscoll Babcock, the artist and NYU professor takes as his starting point newswire photographs of destruction in Iraq, transforming
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Was the Mona Lisa the World's First 3D Image?
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa has been long studied and celebrated for its virtuosic composition and sfumato technique, its mysterious background and sitter, but two experimental psychologists in Germany are suggesting that the iconic painting may have another claim to fame: being the first 3D image
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Michelangelo's David Statue Growing Frail
From the tombs of the Medici family to St. Peter's Basilica, Michelangelo designed several structures in his native Italy that have endured the threat of earthquakes. But the artist wasn't anticipating the rumblings caused by hordes of tourists and automobile traffic.
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Gallery Weekend Berlin: Post-poor, Post-sexy
BERLIN — Gallery Weekend Berlin wrapped up its tenth edition on Sunday evening. What began in 2004 as a small group of local gallerists teaming up to lure outside collectors to the "Land of Poor but Sexy" for one weekend has grown from 21 to 50 galleries in the past decade.
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Art That Gives Directions
Run by Lacey Fekishazy and Jon Lutz, Sardine is as small as its name suggests. And the Bushwick gallery takes space into special consideration: it isn’t an ostensibly typical neighborhood art space, one that makes the white walls look cramped, but there is instead a certain regard taken to consider
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Required Reading
This week, the secret of the pyramids, morality of architects, bell hooks on Sheryl Sandberg's "faux feminism," photographing "whiteness," Whitney Biennial on Charlie Rose, and more.
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Weekend Words: Move
The Whitney Museum will soon be moving to its new location near the High Line, and the Metropolitan Museum will be moving its modern and contemporary art collection into the Whitney's historic Marcel Breuer building.
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Julian Schnabel’s Formula for Greatness
Since Julian Schnabel first gained attention with his broken plate paintings in the 1980s, he has been predisposed to working on found surfaces – animal skins, velvet, corduroy, sail cloth, tarpaulins, canvas flooring from boxing rings, wallpaper, navigation maps, flags, Kabuki theater backdrops, an
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Outsider Art Preview: Blurred Categories and Fairs Big and Small
Has the outsider art field become a victim of its own success? If so, it is a peculiar “victim,” and its success must be measured by standards that go beyond the money-obsessed art world’s primary criterion for determining aesthetic value — the price tag that any specific work happens to sport at an