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Over a century later, the voices of those taking refuge in the tomb-like beds of a Victorian homeless shelter are difficult to resuscitate, their experiences only echoed in the recordings of outsiders.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a vintage cat film festival, Allen Rupperberg's colorful phonetic translation of Allen Ginberg's "Howl," war games in the desert, and more.
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Memento Mori — Looking at Death in Art and Illustration at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery considers death's role in society over the past 500 years.
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As an Asian boy growing up middle-class in America, I was taught assimilation was key.
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This week we remember the Armenian Genocide, celebrate queer cartoonists, debate the necessity of all-women exhibitions, think about how posters work, and much more.
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LONDON — Hexenmeister, AA Bronson’s first solo show at Maureen Paley, calls to mind his recent House of Shame at the Gwangju Biennial, featuring Bronson’s particular combination of queer themes and shamanic practices.
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“When I looked at those photographs, something broke,” critic Susan Sontag once wrote, recalling the day in July 1945 she first saw pictures of Nazi concentration camps.
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The Rubin Museum of Art opened an installation of Nepalese art today to launch its Honoring Nepal programming series, which celebrates the culture of the earthquake-devastated country.
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ISTANBUL — Last Saturday Yassin al-Haj Saleh, one of the most vocal intellectuals of the Syrian Civil War or Revolution (depending on your perspective), attended a screening of Our Terrible Country (2014) at SALT Galata.
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BOSTON — The news of Jane Farver’s death on April 29 came as a complete shock.
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It’s not so easy for Iranian-American artists to portray their hyphenated identities.
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The death of Kurt Cobain in early April of 1994 shocked almost nobody who knew him and almost everybody who didn’t.