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A Collective Designs "Funktional" Objects that Combine Fine Art and the Everyday
Con Artist Collective promises to showcase work that combines the “tenuous space between fine art and the everyday.”
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Nasher Prize Dialogues: Performance as Sculpture, Featuring Theaster Gates and Ragnar Kjartansson
The dynamic conversation will explore the role of performance within artists’ respective sculptural practices.
Art
The True Collaborative Power Between Artist and Curator
You can approach each work in this show as individual, but the really charming and kinetic action happens in the interactions.
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An Outline of Over 200 Years of Silhouettes
The oldest object on view documents an ugly reality, showing on brown paperboard one of the earliest known images of a slave in the US, accompanied by a bill of sale.
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How Little Women Overshadowed the Artistic Career of Another Alcott Sister
A decade after the bestselling novel was published, the younger sister May Alcott Nieriker came out with a women’s guide to studying art in Europe.
Interview
“I Couldn’t Avoid the '60s”: Diane Kurys on Her Early Filmmaking in France
From capturing teenage innocence to 1968, Kurys's slice-of-life movies are sparkling and big-hearted, but not without a caustic side.
In Brief
Judy Chicago Responds to Criticisms About the "Dinner Party"
A discussion in the press between an artist and critics amplifies the weak points of Second-wave feminism.
News
Exclusive Look at the New York Film Festival's Annual Showcase of Innovative Film, Projections
The New York Film Festival's Projections lineup has been announced and we have the complete list that includes films by Sky Hopinka, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, and others.
In Brief
Three Egyptian Curators Denied UK Visas to Attend Conference on “Beating Barriers”
If an award-winning curator with the backing of Microsoft can't gain access to the UK for an academic conference, then who can?
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The Radical Early Works of French Artist-Activist Jean-Jacques Lebel
A retrospective at Centre Pompidou features the eclectic early works of the artist, poet, political activist and scholar who spearheaded the European wing of the "happening" movement.
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Imaging a City of Marcel Duchamp's Readymades
Have you ever accidentally walked into an occupied bathroom? That incredulous shock of embarrassment is precisely what the Swiss Institute's new exhibition conjures.
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Booking a Trip to the Elusive Land Called Paradise
Jova Lynne explores the notions of Paradise and tourism in her performance art piece Paradise Travel Company.