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Alec Soth's Photographs Mine the Margins of the US
SAN FRANCISCO — Alec Soth’s latest multi-year investigation of life in the hinterlands of the United States is a refined version of the now venerable notion of the photographic road trip.
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Family Portraits Left Incomplete
HO CHI MINH CITY — Trong Gia Nguyen was only three years old when he was crammed into a Renault Dauphine with 13 other family members and driven to the Saigon docks on April 30, 1975.
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Cuba's Cinematic Revolution
Critical, frenzied, imaginative, and committed, the works of Communist Cuba’s first generation of filmmakers helped reinvigorate and reinterrogate revolutionary cinema.
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Curating for the Cure: Medical Facilities Embrace the Power of Art
WEST HARRISON, NY — As galleries and museums are for practical reasons limited to exhibitions of modest duration, alternatives are perennially sought by artists, often leading them to less than suitable locations like restaurants, offices, and corporate lobbies.
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Historic Photographs Recreated in Miniature
Since photography was first invented nearly 200 years ago, humans have gained an unprecedented visual understanding of their past.
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From Ancient Coins to Koons, the Arts Expenditures of the World's 80 Richest People
FiveThirtyEight compiled a handy list of the world's 80 richest people, including each person's wealth, the country where they live, whether or not their money is self-made, and the sector in which they deal or work. What if there were another column, one for the arts?
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Photographers Bring Home a Picture of Fukushima
One of art’s greatest functions might be the way it helps us share our common experiences, though those experiences are sometimes all too tragic.
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ArtRx LA
This week, there are two chances to see art in the desert, an evening of spiritualist mediumship, an internet chat room performance, and more.
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Joyce Pensato's Messy Imagination, Laid Bare
Joyce Pensato is best known for her stark, large-scale paintings of cartoon characters and in particular for her series of Batman paintings that depict the cape crusader’s iconic mask using splashy skeins of black and white paint.
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From 18th-Century Tool Chest to 21st-Century Public Art Project
ROCHESTER, UK — Thanks to an association with Charles Dickens, North Kent is better known for literature than for contemporary art. But a new project by Adam Chodzko connects the two.
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Surveying Surveys of New American Sculpture and Photography
Concurrent surveys of new American art in two specific media — New American Sculpture at FiveMyles and Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography at Pioneer Works — reinforce just how interdisciplinary their respective fields have become.
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Out of This World, Domestic Objects Transcend Their Daily Use
New York is a big art city, with big art fairs, big museums, and lots of big concept art.