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Terracotta Daughters: An Army to Battle Gender Imbalance in China
French artist Prune Nourry is exploring this issue of gender selection in China by riffing off of one of its most iconic heritage sites: the Terracotta Warriors.
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A View from the Easel
Artist studios in Massachusetts, New York City, and Ontario.
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Painting for Oneself: On Peter Heinemann’s Self-Portraits
Forty years passed between my first hearing about Peter Heinemann’s self-portraits and my actually getting a chance to see them. A number are currently installed in a garret-like room at the National Academy Museum as one of several posthumous inclusions in the group exhibition See it Loud: Seven Po
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He Who Controls the Past: Highlights from "The Shadows Took Shape" at the Studio Museum
One part a literary subgenre of sci-fi, pioneered by the likes of Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler, and one part cross-cultural, interdisciplinary aesthetic movement, Afrofuturism — a term coined by cultural critic Mark Dery in his 1994 essay "Black to the Future"— can be tricky to describe.
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To Instagram or Not to Instagram?
One of the stories making the rounds in the art blogosphere at the moment is an article from LiveScience, which details a study that found people were less likely to remember artwork they saw in a museum if they photographed it. The findings dovetail nicely with an essay by Eric Gibson in the curren
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An Architecture of Poetry and Sound
To experience “Frolic Architecture” is to enter into a world that feels both familiar and bizarre. The piece, a collaboration between composer David Grubbs and poet Susan Howe is a delicate sound collage, rich with layers, solemn, and mildly, comfortably disjointed.
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Quickening the Pulse in Miami
MIAMI BEACH — Parsing contemporary art's inscrutable pecking order of markets and sensibilities is already a miserable endeavor, but the stakes inch ever higher in Miami, where the tantalizing gruel of celebrity gets spread preciously thin.
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I See Pretty Things at Design Miami
MIAMI BEACH — It was refreshing to wander around a Miami fair that doesn't appear to have a fear of pretty things. In the design world, unlike the art world, beauty isn't considered a dirty word, so, wandering through the aisles of the 2013 Design Miami fair, I could see an obvious affection for bea
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Two Long-Lost Peter Sellers Films Discovered in a Trash Can
Today's "holy crap!" story is the discovery of two long-lost Peter Sellers films that were salvaged from a trash can.
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Reliving the Hyperallergic Aqua Art Party Bedlam
MIAMI BEACH — I don’t need to tell YOU this, but to go to the Hyperallergic Aqua Art Miami party is like entering a topsy-turvy world where black is white, up is down, left is right but sometimes down, too. My point is that Hyperallergic parties can be strange.
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Blend Art and Education at Columbia College Chicago
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Bloody Bloody Boudoir Ladies: Turning Kitsch Ceramics Into Horror
Edinburgh-based artist Jessica Harrison transforms the collectible ceramic ladies that populate grandmothers' china cabinets into spectacles of gore.