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Willie Cole Recycles Musical Instruments Into Outstanding Sculptures
Time is itself a recycling process for Cole, whose freewheeling spirit transcends linearity in his excavations of art and music history.
Alexander and Bonin gallery
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The Fascinating Contradictions of Paul Thek
Thek rebelled against his early virtuosity, and chafed against the aspects of religion that rejected his gayness, while remaining a devout Catholic.
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One Million-Square-Foot AIDS Memorial Quilt Is Now Entirely Online
The 48,000 panels share stories of care and craftsmanship, memorializing 125,000-plus victims of HIV and AIDS since 1980.
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AIDS Memorial Quilt Volunteers Repurpose Fabric to Sew Masks for Essential Workers
Gert McMullin, one of the founders of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, has been using fabric from the historic quilt to create protective masks for essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Sylvia Plimack Mangold’s Spring and All
I cannot think of another artist devoted to nature who chooses such unlikely, decidedly plain, almost unsightly views, but never makes that act the point of the painting.
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The Intimate Polaroids of a 1980s Punk Photographer
Morrisroe's works are photographic in material, painterly in aesthetic, and completely performative in concept.
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As Brazilian Art Trends, the Country's Racism Comes to the Fore
As a Brazilian who has lived in the US for the past 10 years, I’ve found Americans’ growing enthusiasm for Brazilian culture and politics both welcome and bothersome.
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How the 2015 ADAA Art Fair Changed My Life
It didn't. I lied. I'm sorry. But I did like these things at the Art Dealers Association of America's (ADAA) art fair.
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Silence Is Enough: On Emily Jacir
Silenced, erased, censored — how then to represent this loss, this nothingness?
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Willie Cole's High Heel Fantasias
Finding beauty in the commonplace — some may even say banal — is one of artist Willie Cole’s strengths.
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Why There Are Great Artists
The current exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and prints by Sylvia Plimack Mangold at Alexander and Bonin (March 16–April 28, 2012) got me thinking once again about the different kinds of spaces she has constructed in her work, beginning with the tilting planes in her early paintings, such as "F
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A Report from #OccupyWallStreet: Signs & Inspirations
"Today is day 5," read a sign in the midst of thousands of people camping out at Liberty Plaza yesterday, steps away from Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange. It's been a week since the Occupy Wall Street protests have gotten underway, and the protesters are not backing down, pledging to con