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Artists Examine the Troubling Histories of Medical Abuse and Human Experimentation
Baneful Medicine looks to the past, but offers an opportunity to ponder bodily autonomy, informed consent, and medical practice in the present.
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Willie Cole, Shinique Smith, and Abigail DeVille Discuss Found Material in African-American Art
Artists come together to discuss Nari Ward's repurposed objects as a reflection of place, culture, and identity.
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An Exhibition that Frustrates Our Grasp of Abstraction
Though Out of Easy Reach has a unifying theme, it presents a variety of tastes and approaches in a way that feels like ungainly curation which ultimately does not clarify how these women artists now steer the conversation about abstraction.
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LA’s New Contemporary Art Museum Celebrates a Flexible, Collectionless Model
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, located in a converted clothing factory on the edge of the Arts District, officially opens on September 9.
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The Many Lives and Losses of the Western Hemisphere's Oldest Museum
BALTIMORE — Most contemporary art museums operate in service of the art they exhibit, the setting playing a secondary role to artists’ intentions.
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A Los Angeles Mega-Gallery Opens with Museum Ambitions
LOS ANGELES — Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, the local outpost of mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth, will open its massive hybrid art space to the public on Sunday.
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Art that Acknowledges Death Without Showing the Body
Every autumn in New York, leaves fall, grass turns brittle, and people are reminded of death.
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The Art of Accumulation at a New Orleans Shrine to the Plague Saint
The act of accumulating objects is one of our oldest forms of visual expression.
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Best of 2014: Our Top 10 Exhibitions Across the United States
This list gives you a sense of some of the best this year across the United States.
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Washington, DC, Becomes a Playground of Public Art
One week ago, an installation by artist Abigail DeVille was dismantled in Washington, DC. “The New Migration” was a collection of materials gathered by DeVille during a road trip from DC to Jacksonville, Florida, retracing and reversing the steps of a popular route taken by African Americans fleeing
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What a Teenager's Backpack Tells Us About Art
CHICAGO — Amanda Ross-Ho recreated a soft-sculpture replica of an anonymous teen-girl's backpack, blowing it up to 400% of its original size.