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A Refreshing Dose of Cynicism-Free Abstraction
Clare Grill is a painter based in Queens. She has shown consistently, if not quietly, over the last few years.
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A Surreal Game Leaves You Stuck Inside a Train Station
In the video game Off-Peak, you're trapped in a train station that's a surreal concoction of New York City architecture
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The Bewildering Beauty of the Ordinary
I urge viewers not to miss the rare opportunity to linger over Julia Fish’s paintings and drawings, which were last exhibited in New York in 2005. A group of recent works can be seen in Julia Fish: Threshold, currently on display at David Nolan Gallery.
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A Universe of Drawing, Rolled into a Single Room
Ten years ago, the Morgan Library & Museum decided it was time to bring its collection up to speed on the art of drawing in the 20th and 21st centuries — a daunting task in itself, and even more improbable in the face of a superheated, late-capitalist art market: at the feast of the trophy-eaters, w
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In Battle Against ISIS, Saving Lives or Ancient Artifacts
Last week's stunning video of the destruction of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is likely to renew calls for drastic action to save Iraq's antiquities before they are lost forever.
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A Portrait of Martin Wong Between Text and Image
SAN FRANCISCO — Curated by students of the Curatorial Studies program at the California College of the Arts, this compact, well-considered gathering of work across many media by Martin Wong is a marvel of what the small-scale and seemingly ephemeral can communicate.
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Artists Stage Political Interventions in Video Games
“I’m interested in using games as a way to engage in and critique the fine art world, especially the economics of that world,” said Grayson Earle, an Integrated Media Arts adjunct professor at Hunter College and SUNY Baruch, and member of The Illuminator.
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When Abstract Sculptures Have Familiar Faces
While looking at Sophie Hirsch's solo show Autokorrekt at Brooklyn's Signal gallery last weekend, I got an acute pang of pareidolia from two pieces made from molds of peeled pomegranate fruit.
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Sum of the Arts
Self-portraits Rembrandt painted, sketched, or etched in his lifetime = 80
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China's Terracotta Warriors Have a Smashing Cameo in 'Furious Seven'
The most outrageous action sequence in the new blockbuster Furious Seven ends with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker plowing a car through a platoon of clay figures that look just like China’s Terracotta Army.
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In the Spotlight, Harvard’s Rothkos Don’t Shine
Cambridge, Mass. — There is a story that sometimes circulates through the art world claiming the reason some of Mark Rothko’s work has faded over time is because he bought his paint at Woolworth’s Department Store.
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The Irresistible Pull of Takis’s Magnetic Fields
PARIS — Takis, a key post-war figure known for exploring magnetic field energy, was one of the avant-garde artists of the ‘60s that was most able to mix art with science, paving the way for all sorts of artistic directions in the ensuing decades, right up to our electro days.