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Two British Painters Use Style as Substance
Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005) and Gary Hume (born 1962) have 34 years between them, and yet their work is similar and compelling enough to warrant a twin retrospective at Tate Britain. Because the Tate has prudently divided the artists — “offering visitors the chance to see the work of two complemen
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New Yorker Art Critic Justifies Looting of Detroit Museum
Would New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl suggest that Greece sell the Parthenon to pay its crippling national debt?
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The Slippery Slope of Perspective
CHICAGO — Are you a viewer, voyeur, or just a wallflower? These interchangeable labels provide a curious starting point for ways to think about the relationship between the subject and the (art) object in Slippery Slope, a group exhibition at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago.
Opinion
When Street Art Goes Meta
This image, depicting the work of British street artist DS, was briefly on the front page of Reddit earlier this afternoon, and it's tremendous.
Opinion
Things You Could Do Instead of Waiting in Line for the Rain Room
Sure, the Rain Room at the Museum of Modern Art sounds cool — but is it really worth waiting in line for 13 hours to see it? That's apparently what some people did this past weekend, says Gothamist, topping the previous high of 12 hours in London.
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Trying to Make Galleries Relevant, One JPEG at a Time
Send Me the JPEG at Winkleman Gallery is not a show about art, but about the art world. Its title derives from a new phenomenon wherein collectors forgo viewing art firsthand and instead buy works based on digital photographs alone. Those who still love encountering new art in person worry to what e
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Ghost in the (Chess) Machine
Set sometime in the ’80s, mumblecore maven Andrew Bujalski’s fourth feature, Computer Chess, is an adventurous and peculiar period piece. Chronicling a tournament of computers competing in chess and the programmers who code them, the film endearingly evokes the nascent and heady era before smart pho
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10 Painters' Lives Chronicled as Infographics
At about the same time Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock was losing himself to depression, Matisse's longterm relationship with his wife was unwinding, and when Mondrian was discovering Cubism, Miró was delving into Surrealism. All these little landmarks of 10 abstract painters' lives h
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Caffeine-Modernism
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Images from the Third Week of the Brooklyn Int’l Performance Art Festival #NSFW
The third week of Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF) was a giant celebration of such diverse styles that it was often hard to believe that it was all unified under the category of performance art.
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The Infantile World of Paul McCarthy
The Seventh Regiment Armory, constructed at the end of the 19th century, was and remains the only such military structure funded by private monies, a final excess of the Gilded Age. It's easy to read an obscene vulgarity into the opulence of its architecture, though we are reminded that it was meant