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ArtRx LA
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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An Artistic History of Death
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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How a Queer Asian Artist Infiltrated the New York Scene Through Dress-Up and Self-Portraiture
As an Asian boy growing up middle-class in America, I was taught assimilation was key.
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ArtRx NYC
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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US History, Queer Life, and Witchcraft: How AA Bronson, Somehow, Comes Together
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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The Surprisingly Mundane Landscapes of Holocaust Sites
“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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New York City Museum Celebrates the Culture of Earthquake-Ravaged Nepal
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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What Is the Role of an Intellectual During a Revolution?
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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Missing Jane Farver
BOSTON — The news of Jane Farver’s death on April 29 came as a complete shock.
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Rorschach Inkblots Conjure Up Themes of Loss in Iran
It’s not so easy for Iranian-American artists to portray their hyphenated identities.
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The Myths of Kurt Cobain Resurface in a New Documentary
The death of Kurt Cobain in early April of 1994 shocked almost nobody who knew him and almost everybody who didn’t.
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A Light Heart Through Heavy Times: Ed Sanders’ Glyphic Works
In early 1966, following a New Years’ gig by his folk-rock band, the Fugs, the poet Ed Sanders woke up to find that his Peace Eye Bookstore, then on East 10th Street, had been raided by the NYPD.