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The Sci-Fi Writer Who Used Photography to Search for Ancient Aliens
In the 1940s, science fiction fans were gripped by tales of an underworld of nefarious beings preying on the humans up above.
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Whitney Biennial 2014: Stuart Comer on the Third Floor
On the third floor, 2014 Whitney Biennial curator Stuart Comer professed to "provide a kaleidoscopic glimpse of this historic moment," emphasizing work that seemed in flux and in transition from one medium to another, one state to another, or even across borders and identities.
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A View from the Easel
Artist studios in New York, Colorado, Illinois, and Connecticut.
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Beat Nite Notebook: Ken Weathersby at Parallel Art Space
If, as the philosopher of art Nelson Goodman has argued, "Denotation is the core of representation and is independent of resemblance," then Ken Weathersby’s tight wooden grids on view in Parallel Art Space's Off the Wall are more than the mere "paintings" the artist calls them — they fully inhabit t
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Rare Windows Into the Past: Canterbury Stained Glass Arrives at the Cloisters
Six of the medieval stained-glass windows that usually soar some 60 feet up in England's Canterbury Cathedral are on their first journey outside of their ecclesiastical home, brought down to a more intimate level in an exhibition at the Cloisters in Upper Manhattan.
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Whitney Biennial 2014: Where Have All the Politics Gone?
The 2014 Whitney Biennial has many things: oversized ceramics, big abstract and figurative paintings, experimental jazz, videos of people having sex, and bead curtains. What it doesn’t have all that much of is politics.
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A Mormon Teen Girl's Fantasy Land
In her installation "Return to Virtue" (2013), artist Talena Sanders creates a fictional space of a Mormon teen girl's fantasy bedroom — the kind she didn't have growing up, despite being raised Mormon.
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Basquiat Estate Files Suit Against Christie's
The estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat has filed a complaint in the US District Court in Manhattan over a Christie's online auction comprising contested and unauthenticated works, the New York Times reported.
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Dreaming of Fluorescent Men
“Sun Hat Sunset” (2012), a painting by Robin F. Williams currently on view at PPOW Gallery, shows a stubble-chinned man casually smoking a cigarette and wearing a floppy, oversized hat — the whimsical kind usually seen on women at the beach. The portrait elicits a startling contrast between the man’
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Tricks and Trade of 19th-Century Magic in Houdini's Digitized Scrapbooks
Through the recently digitized scrapbooks of Harry Houdini, you can be transported to the world of 19th-century magic, an era of deception and curiosity about the unknown.
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Whitney Biennial 2014: Michelle Grabner on the Fourth Floor
During the opening remarks for the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Chief Curator Donna de Salvo said that this year's exhibition was "one biennial with three distinct points of view," so we've decided to explore that diversity in perspectives with three separate photo essays of the Biennial — one per
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Two Mythological Creatures Rise from the Castoffs of China's Construction
The myth of the phoenix casting itself into the flames only to rise up stronger is powerful and monumental, with reverberations of self-sacrifice, destruction, hope, and regeneration. In an installation in the nave of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Chinese artist Xu Bing has realized