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This week, smartphone impact on photography, rise and fall of Lisa Frank, nail art, high-end auction market, Robert Capa in color, literary feuds and more.
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Weekend Words: Handshake
"When is a handshake not just a handshake?" asks the New York Daily News. "When it happens between the presidents of Cuba and the United States, two countries whose enmity has lasted well over half a century and resisted all attempts to normalize relations."
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Weekend Studio Visit: Melissa Meyer in Midtown Manhattan, New York
Over the past decade, Melissa Meyer, rightfully characterized by David Cohen “as virtually without a peer as a lyrical abstractionist,” moved from the lyrical to the disjunctive.
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Some Where’s Rainbow: Pink Floyd and Dorothy Land in Bushwick
Last week Brooklyn’s Where Gallery celebrated the close of its inaugural show with Dark Side of the Rainbow, the live over-dubbed experience of Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz (1939) as synchronized with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon (1973).
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Single Point Perspective: Paweł Althamer’s Grass-Fed Surrealism
Inside the second floor galleries housing the contemporary collection of the Museum of Modern Art, a sculpture called “Bruno” (1998–2012) stands in quiet command of the room. Made primarily of grass and cow intestines, its materials transform the human body into a mediation on mortality via the dige
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Painting, Perception, and the Emphatically Handmade
The recent resurgence of interest in contemporary painting has posited the unique object — especially the handcrafted, the slapped-together, and the aggressively tactile — as yin to neo-conceptualism’s yang, a raggedy-edged refutation of the factory-finished, the reproducible, and the overly cerebra
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The Yayoi Kusama Experience at David Zwirner in Emoji
Some things are simply better said in emoji …
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One Nation Under Satan: Religious Sculpture on State Property Rankles in Oklahoma
One only has to stumble over the last lines of the Pledge of Allegiance or look at the back of a dollar bill to see how monotheistic religion is cemented in the United States.
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Traffic and the Human Condition
A few years ago, China's traffic jams of epic proportions started to make the news. Traffic on the ring roads in a city like Beijing is on par with, sometimes even worse than, that of Los Angeles's 405 or New York's BQE at rush hour. It seems to be an inevitable part of our lives, as this amazing co
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Copyright Laws Are a-Changin' (Maybe) in the US and EU
The arena of copyright is a global morass of collaboration, appropriation, and theft. Rights management is a nightmare for artists and a cash machine for the legal profession, but two recent developments, one in the United States and the other in the European Union, aim, respectively, to expand the
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Why Do Emoji Fascinate Us?
Last night's opening of the Emoji Art and Design Show was a light-hearted celebration of those pictograms that have crept into our conversations and lives in every which way. The exhibition felt more design than art, and the pop-up marketplace featured a number of — you guessed it — emoji-related pr
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Barbara Stanwyck, Proto-Feminist Hollywood Star
It’s a sure sight for sore eyes to see the name “Stanwyck” emblazoned on a cinematheque marquee. Then again, not everyone today may be familiar with this name — but the uninitiated have every reason to stop in for one of the afternoon or evening double bills playing all through December at Film Foru