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Personal Takes on the Realities of Colonialism
LONDON — How do you tell a story that does not want to be told?
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Kehinde Wiley Paints the Precariousness of Black Life
Much has been made of the current Kehinde Wiley retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum.
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The Baroque World of Rubens as a Kinetic Carousel of the Damned
In a colossal carousel of horror, Mat Collishaw and Sebastian Burdon reinterpreted the chaotic violence of Peter Paul Rubens's "Massacre of the Innocents" paintings as a 3D-printed zoetrope.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's the 25th anniversary of a drag doc, shoe designer Chris Francis sets up shop in the Craft & Folk Art Museum, the Hammer hosts a talk on black conceptualism, and more.
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Weather Report: Hito Steyerl's Documentary Forecast for the Digital Age
For the last several years now, as the credits roll at the end of her films, artist Hito Steyerl’s name, rather than appearing alongside the typical “Written and Directed by,” is listed with roles (or non-roles) considerably more blurred and expressionistic.
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In Detroit, an Arts Festival Crosses Borders
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Borders are a slippery concept, one that seems to exist only in theory most of the time, but occasionally manifests in reality dramatically.
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The Glass Plate Garden: Early Photographs of Central Park
In thousands of recently digitized glass plate negatives, the natural and landscaped grandeur of gardens past is revealed in freshly sharp detail.
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Exploring the Terrain of Contemporary Native American Art
Where are the indigenous stories, communities, and artists within “American” contemporary art?
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ArtRx NYC
The weather is heating up in NYC, and so are the art events. This week, visit shows devoted to "neo-craftivism" and geometric abstraction, imagine the city's unrealized urban plans — or just kick back with cat videos.
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A Project that Lets You Control Music with Your Mind
With new technology comes new opportunities to augment our reality, and two art projects now on view in Brooklyn experiment with our interaction with sound through electronic devices.
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An Artist's Installations Coax Memories Out of Historic Spaces
BRIGHTON, UK — Brighton Festival and HOUSE 2015, a contemporary visual arts festival, have put up their headline artist in a hotel notable for its design and feng shui.
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J.M.W. Turner, the Sublime, and Me
LOS ANGELES — “You don’t experience the sublime looking through double glazing, or at a distant electric storm, or watching a sea rage on TV.”