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Spring is finally here, and the doctor wants you to celebrate newness.
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Books
Painter Illustrates the Diversity of Sex and Gender in the Natural World with a Children's Book
The diversity of sex and gender in the animal kingdom is totally overlooked when people use the argument "it's not natural" to say that someone's lifestyle goes against their personal moral constructs. What's "natural" is actually incredibly complex, considering we have hermaphrodite leopard slugs,
Community
A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — The 36th installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace. Want to take part? Submit your studio — just check out the submission guidelines.
Art
The Art of Middlebrow
When I first heard about Tilda Swinton's "The Maybe," an ongoing performance piece in which the actress sporadically sleeps in a glass box at the Museum of Modern Art, I sighed and shrugged and laughed a little. Another unoriginal work becomes a cultural flashpoint — cause for media outcry, cause fo
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A Family Lives Out the Drama of the World
CHICAGO — Typical American movie moments of heightened tension use signal sounds in tandem with the emotions portrayed by the actors on screen. The family dog knocks over a precious antique plate, and an ominous tune rolls in to signify that the pup is about to get in trouble. Dad arrives home only
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Finding Empathy in the Confines of Our Skin
Two billion cells make up the skin encasing our bodies, and 300 million of them are replaced every day. We need a sense of bodily integrity so much that if we lose a limb, we imagine it's still there, itching and aching, and yet our skin, that exterior layer actually holding us together, is constant
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Resurrecting the Modernist Legacy of Designer Eileen Gray
PARIS — Eileen Gray designed furniture that didn't so much inhabit as space as touch lightly on it. With discreet forms and minimalist waves that contrasted their industrial materials to the waning of Art Nouveau, the Irish designer quietly influenced the modernism that would guide architecture and
Interview
Making Documentaries More Real
In an email, a friend of mine mentioned a show taking place at the Kitchen next week: The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, created by the filmmaker Sam Green, with live music by indie rockers Yo La Tengo. The subject matter seemed like solid geeky/arty fare, but what stood out to me in the event
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the economic imperative for investing in art, dogs in pantyhose, the Renoir thief, sexism in architecture, street art in Palestine, GIF search engines, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Blessings
The coverage of New York State Senator Malcolm A. Smith's pursuit of the New York City mayoralty revealed this detail, courtesy of Kenneth Lovett of the NY Daily News: In Queens, a sign at Smith's district office read, "Theme of the Week: Blessings Have No Restrictions." Following suit, Weekend Word
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Spring Breakers: More Skittles Than Chess
The dust has now begun to settle in the wake of the release of Spring Breakers, director Harmony Korine’s highly anticipated and now much-debated crime drama about four college co-eds who go on a crime spree during a holiday in Florida. By now, even if you haven’t seen the movie, you probably know a
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Before We Are Completely Swept Away: Joshua Marsh’s Recent Paintings
The changes that Joshua Marsh has made since his debut show at Jeff Bailey in 2010 — which I reviewed for the Brooklyn Rail (October 2010) — should be mentioned. In As If, his second exhibition at the same gallery, he shows drawings for the first time — thirty works on clay-coated paper measuring 5