Opinion
Weekend Words: Doubt
Given the checkered history of recent Michelangelo discoveries, Weekend Words proposes a round of the children's card game "I Doubt It."
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Art
Single Point Perspective: Entropy Now
Last week, as I was clicking through the various gallery listings and websites for something to catch my eye, I chanced upon a summer group exhibition at Lehmann Maupin’s Chrystie Street venue. One of the installation shots showed a flat, white marble relief sculpture by Maya Lin; I made a mental no
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Painting on the Cusp: Abstraction of the 1980s
Before there were the New Casualists, there were the Provisional Painters, and before there were the Provisional Painters, there were the 1980s.
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Treading the Paths of History, with Art as a Guide
Art can have a unique place in interpretive history experiences by embodying the history of a place with an impactful visual, and making that visual part of the narrative. But it's hard to do well without being overly intrusive or just clashing with the surrounding setting. Here are four examples of
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A Gallery Says Goodbye with a Family Show
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Kaitlin O'Brien is 16, and she's gonna turn 17 in August. Arguably her biggest accomplishment this year to date was curating Thanks for the Warning (ran through June 22), a 68-person show containing 86 artworks at the Dolphin Gallery, which her father John O'Brien has owned f
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A Tale of Two Street Mural Projects
First it was a faraway hum. Ad Hoc Art returned to Welling Court, Queens, this year. Then it became like drums, still far away, but coming closer, rhythmic. Artists covered 100 walls this year alone. Then hundreds of feet joining drums and percussion and marching in rhythm were nearly upon me in tim
Opinion
Deconstructing Barbie's Disproportion
The blogosphere and the mainstream media have exploded this week over the story of artist Nickolay Lamm, who used 3-D modeling and Photoshop to create a "normal"-looking Barbie. But lest we forget, the fact of Barbie's ridiculous proportions is not news.
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Art Movements
Chicago's Field Museum's major budget cuts, the return of looted Chinese art, BMW pulls out of BMW Guggenheim Lab, a possible Michelangleo, Baltimore's the Contemporary planned to reopen, the St. Louis Art Museum's new expansion …
Comics
Contemplation Is Hard Work
Is this the age old question of theory versus practice?
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Have No Fear, the Government Is …
It can be an exhausting process.
Books
Three Reads to Unsettle Your Mind, and Support Small Presses
Why not instead of settling in for an easy summer read, you nudge your brain out of its comfort zone with some independent press selections? Below are three recent releases with an edge of the disconcerting.
News
Print Stalwart to Freely Publish Proofs Online
Though Ugly Duckling Presse holds that "the technology of the physical book is essentially different" from digital copies, today they have taken a significant step in making their catalogue freely available for online download. The influential "micropress," which publishes poetry, translations, lost