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Art for Ordinary People?
BRIGHTON, UK — Under normal circumstances, art doesn't come with a manual. But at a new show in Southwark, London, visitors soon find circumstances are not so normal.
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The Great Refusal: Videos Taking on New Queer Aesthetics
CHICAGO — The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics induces a sort of lonely feel, one that falls closer in line with Lee Edelman's No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, which argues that "the efficacy of queerness lies in its very willingness to embrace this refusal of the social and
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Cats Non-Ironically Eating Turkey
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Art
The Raw Side of Performance Art
With smoke and fire, blowtorches and red-hot cattle brands, Non Grata has emerged from Estonia as one of the most audacious and evolving performance art groups to regularly come to and perform in the United States. From last month through the end of this one, the group has been guest curating a seri
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How (Not) to Write Like an Art Critic
CHICAGO — A friend who was in London recently went to see what was on at the Tate Modern, and at the end of his visit he did something I never do: he went into the gift shop and bought something. "I've got something to show you, Philip!" he told me on his return. My heart sank. Was it a set of dinne
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A Tag Sale at the Temple of Modernism
There's a garage sale at the Museum of Modern Art, and no, it's not a high-end, designer consignment sale. Martha Rosler's Meta-Monumental Garage Sale is about as real as they come, from the racks of battered shoes to the "great dad" statuettes, and from the worn lingerie to the splattered cookbooks
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Gallery Photo Policies Versus the Aura of the Artwork
BRIGHTON, UK — If a picture is worth a thousand words, Nihilistic Optimistic is worth about a million. The new show from Tim Noble and Sue Webster at Blain Southern is super photogenic, and therein may lie its appeal.
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Opinion
Another Gangnam Style: When Memes Make You Hate Them
I think it's happened: I've hit my Gangnam Style limit with this new video by Anish Kapoor and his cohorts in museums and galleries (not to mention random offices and people) around the world.
Art
Death, Darkness, Alchemy, and Rebirth
I’ve always been attracted to the macabre in art and literature. I have a vivid memory of pronouncing Edgar Allen Poe my favorite author we had read that year in 7th grade; most of my classmates preferred Harper Lee or Mark Twain. While walking through the group exhibition A Wake: Still Lives and Mo
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Vandalized Rothko Could Take 18 Months to Restore
The damage caused by the Polish Yellowist Vladimir Umanets to Mark Rothko's painting "Black on Maroon" (1958) at the Tate in October could take up to 18 months to repair. The vandalism is, unfortunately, far worse than initially thought.
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Family Portrait on the Moon
Have you seen the photograph of Astronaut Charles Duke and his family that was left on the Moon in 1972? It is a small 3x5 color photo of Duke, his wife Dorothy and their two sons Charles and Thomas posing for a studio portrait. If you visit the American Museum of Natural History in New York you can