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Relics of War on Europe's Coastlines
During the grimmest days of World War II, the Allied and Axis powers raced to fortify their coastlines.
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In Readers' Hands, Archives Find New Contexts
Now more than ever archives are in a transition, one that offers an opportunity for new potential at a time when there’s nostalgia for old, dusty cardboard boxes.
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New Permanent Installation Blooms at the Rijksmuseum
When the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam debuted its renovated Philips Wing in November, curious modern flora bloomed over its 18th-century staircase.
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Artist Stan Douglas Resurrects Postwar Vancouver in an Interactive App
Ghosts hovering around an abandoned hotel and the streets of a neighborhood where the fences lean and paint crackles on the walls — these are your messengers to the past in Circa 1948.
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Peter Saul’s Hair-Raising Attacks
Peter Saul’s anarchic imagination is a singular phenomenon in American art.
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Dawn Clements and the Distinctness of Vision
The Italian director Matarazzo Raffaello was the king of melodrama. He was a populist filmmaker who embraced his audience without contempt.
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Studio Eye
Walking through In the Studio: Photographs, a three-part show organized by Peter Galassi, former Chief Curator of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art, and spread over several floors of the Gagosian empire on Madison Avenue, the underlying themes of accumulation, storage, labeling, and jus
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Confounding the Eye: “Breaking Pattern” at Minus Space
Optical painting has been making its presence felt lately, with its 21st-century manifestation swapping the psychedelia and illusionism of its Sixties progenitor, Op Art, for an emphasis on process, systems and formal interrogation.
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At Martín Ramírez Opening, A Defense of Immigrant’s Rights and Outsider Art
Blue chip, outsider artist Martin Ramirez was memorialized this past Thursday evening in Chelsea with the unveiling of a United States postage stamp.
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The Limits of Shedding Light on Grief
Anguished, powerful, and problematic as they are, there is a heavy bar to what images of war and suffering can do, and what they can carry beyond cynicism, voyeurism, or spectacle.
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Stray Dogs, Argentine Zines, and Subterranean Art at SculptureCenter
The three exhibitions currently on display at Long Island City’s SculptureCenter reveal the institution’s commitment to recognizing broad swaths of contemporary art.
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Choreographing a Response to Climate Change
Dancing about climate change makes about as much sense as ... painting Op art compositions to give stock tips. Or crafting a steel sculpture that instructs viewers how to renew their driver's licenses. Or composing an opera to review a restaurant.