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Leon Golub's Never-ending Fight Against the War Machine
LONDON — The conversation of war has dwindled.
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The Radical Art of Archiving Performance, as Practiced by Martha Wilson
The day after I went to go see the Martha Wilson: Downtown and Performing Franklin Furnace exhibitions in New York City, a friend brought me to a lecture-performance by Carolee Schneemann at a raw gallery space in Tribeca run by Hunter College.
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Drawings by a Ladies’ Man: Impressions of Leonard Cohen
Alongside his prolific career as a singer-songwriter, Leonard Cohen has been a poet, a novelist, a monk in Los Angeles, and, perhaps most obscurely, an artist.
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An Artist Turns Invasive Plants into Paper Sculptures
DETROIT — How often is an artist willing to introduce an element of chance to her solo gallery opening?
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Wim Wenders Trains His Lens on a Photojournalist
Wim Wenders co-directed The Salt of the Earth, a portrait of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, with Salgado’s son, Juliano Ribeiro. The film is both a comprehensive portrait of Salgado’s work and a meditation on the vocation of photojournalism.
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In a New Residency, Artists Make Work by Volunteering
The small, circular portrait features the face of a man in gold. Creases cut through his forehead, and patches of hair line his thick lips.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a talk on data-based feminist art, a walkthrough of the first retrospective of photographer Brian Weil, group shows inspired by Sartre and string theory, and more.
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Painted Glimpses of the Lives of Fictional Characters
The characters of novels often know things the reader doesn’t.
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Contradictory Patterns and Decorative Illusions
One of the more promising avenues that postmodernism explored was to seek out the nether regions that modernism forgot.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, artists lend a hand to ALS research, Björk fans get together to discuss the Museum of Modern Art exhibition, avant-garde sound art is audible in Queens, 3D printing is under discussion in Greenpoint, and much more.
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In an Exhibition of Miniatures, the Good, the Bad, and the Lego
From 18th-century dollhouses and contemporary architectural maquettes to ancient Egyptian reliquary artifacts, taking pleasure from peering down on diminutive worlds seems to be a universal human delight.
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From a Former Flower Shop in LA to the Ends of the Earth
LOS ANGELES — In the end, I find David Hartt’s exhibition, Interval, produced by LAXART, situated on the second floor of downtown’s Bonaventure Hotel.