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The Stuff of a Sustainable Future
Marc-Anthony Polizzi’s installations are regional portraits commenting on contemporary consumer culture’s emphasis on the disposable.
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A Focus on Biography at Independent 20th Century
The fair shines a light on lesser-known artists, often overlooked in their day or excluded from canonical retellings of art history.
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What Does $100K Get You at the Armory Show?
We ping-ponged through scores of booths to find something that fit our fake budget — and it was more difficult than it sounds.
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Moments of Glory at Art on Paper
The fair may have put the flat in "flat file," but there were some spritely works worth spending time with amid the sea of disappointing wall art.
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A New Photography Fair Bets on Classics and AI
NYC's Photofairs gathers over 150 artists with an expansive range of work, from collage and video installations to art books and even generative displays.
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I Hate to Admit it, But I Loved the Armory Show
Yes, it sometimes felt like a circus — but circuses are fun, and art fairs, typically, are not.
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Boston’s Gardner Museum Closes Over Climate Protest
Climate activists say they wanted to use the museum as a platform to "discuss the loss of more than 1 million species from our planet.”
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Required Reading
This week, how to break up with your art-snob boyfriend, a pioneering woman graffiti artist, the rot in Rotten Tomatoes, and what would Ursula K. Le Guin have to say about AI-generated art?
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Searing Memes About Burning Man’s Muddy Fiasco
“Burning Man is all about getting out of your comfort zone” is what many techies must’ve told themselves.
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The Imperfect Charm of Spring Break Art Show
Though lacking much of its former spark, the show continues to provide a niche for artists outside of the market-driven fair sphere.
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What Did the Lion Tell the Tiger?
While Wu Junyong is deeply connected to his love of Chinese myths, folktales, and language, his subjects underscore his break with the past.
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A Mother and Daughter Find Each Other in Art
Mary Ann Unger worked against the idea of the solitary (male) genius, creating a model of life and work that empowers artists like her daughter, Eve Biddle.