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No Longer the Parsley to the Roast: Landscape Architect Dan Kiley's Legacy
Few major architects have centennial exhibitions highlighting how some of their works are "dying quiet deaths," but that is part of the legacy of Dan Kiley.
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Excavating the Music Hidden in Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights"
Have you ever noticed the musical notes tattooed on some unfortunate soul in Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights"?
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Russian and American Artists Respond to Natural Disasters
It is tempting to feel you’ve subdued nature when a hand-held device allows you to peruse newspapers from Beirut to Sydney, or purchase an airline seat that will get you to either city the next day. Fortunately — or unfortunately, depending on what we now refer to as your GPS coordinates — there are
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Art Movements
More Nazi looted art emerges, Germany announces it will create an independent center for looted art, Picasso tapestry stays up, Nancy Holt, Hudson and Stuart Hall die, and much more.
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Wading in Matthew Barney's River of Shit
In the opening of his review of Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament for GalleristNY, Michael H. Miller writes that “it feels perverse to attempt to review, or even summarize” the six-hour-long film (including two intermissions), which premiered on Wednesday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. I’
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Nothing Like a Porn Kiss for Valentine's Day
It's Valentine's Day today, and while those in love (couples, the polyamorous, people and their pets … ) seek solace in each other's company as they celebrate their cultural superiority over single people (OK, it's only implied), the good people at Do Something Good (DSG) have created an intimate (w
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Picturing Public and Private in Mali
POUGHKEEPSIE, New York — Malian photographer Malick Sidibé’s career-run of work, Malick Sidibé: Chemises, now on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, is an intimate and inviting affair.
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Artist Judith Braun Finds Her Work Part of an Olympic Medal Win
I'm a sucker for a feel-good story of an artist who finds his or her work in an unexpected place, so I was delighted when New York–based artist Judith Braun emailed her friends and colleagues earlier today to say she had spotted something she designed in the hands of Sochi Olympic bronze medalist Ke
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An Illustrated Japanese Battle of Farts
Because there's a snowstorm bearing down on us in New York, and because last night I sat through Matthew Barney's new six-hour film, which deals heavily in bodily secretions, today seems like a good day to alert readers to the existence of something wondrous and wonderful: an illustrated scroll from
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The Many Lives of Duchamp's Large Glass
Kendell Geers's "Stripped Bare" (2009), a very contemporary take on a classic of modern art, was shot across the internet as the publicity image for his upcoming lecture at Philadelphia's Institute for Contemporary Art. It's a reference to Marcel Duchamp's masterpiece "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her
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Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Presents 'Xu Zhen: A MadeIn Company Production'
An irreverent artist with a voracious appetite for global information and a unique ability to produce work across multiple platforms and media, Xu Zhen [http://engine.nectarads.com/r?e=eyJhdiI6NTQxMDksImF0IjoyMCwiY20iOjgyMDUwLCJjaCI6MTkzMCwiY3IiOjI1OTAyMCwiZG0iOjQsImZjIjozMjA0NTIsImZsIjoxNjU5MTMsIm5
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Man Meets Nature Once More
LOS ANGELES — Kevin Cooley and Philip Andrew Lewis's exhibition Unexplored Territory at Kopeikin Gallery made me wish the artists had taken a hint from Joseph Kosuth and the spirit of 1960s Conceptual art rather than just creating photographs and videos of the age-old man vs. nature battle.