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Sum of the Arts
Display cases for the 300 artifacts in Vodou: Sacred Powers of Haiti at the Field Museum in Chicago = 0 (to respect the belief that Vodou objects should not be encased)
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Artworks that Clock Working Life
BERLIN — Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life, a tightly curated exhibition currently on show at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, is small but packs a real punch.
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Celebrating Photographers of Color and the Collectives That Have Nurtured Them
"And who else is there?" A staff member at a well-known photo festival and I were nearing the end of an awkward conversation.
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World's Largest Space for Contemporary Glass Art Lets in the Light
CORNING, NY — This Friday, a luminous new wing of the Corning Museum of Glass opens for the display of contemporary glass art and its molten creation.
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Our View from the Cosmic Shore: Early Modern Interpretations of Celestial Events
When Milton was writing Paradise Lost in the 17th century, a comet grazed through the sky, inspiring the English poet to describe how Satan "stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd."
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The Mentor and His Protégé: Frank Lloyd Wright and Fay Jones in Arkansas
Fay Jones was still a boy in Arkansas when he first heard of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Reviewing the Responses to MoMA's Divisive Painting Survey
As news of art fairs and Bjork took the spotlight earlier this month, I lingered on the Museum of Modern Art’s The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, up through early April.
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Looking for Origins of Arab Modernism in Kuwait
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait — The United Arab Emirates may dominate the popular image of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries today, but for most of the 20th century the region's poster child for oil-fueled prosperity and cosmopolitan aspiration was Kuwait.
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A Tomb for the Plastic Ghosts We Leave Behind
Over seven months, artist Ian Trask collected thousands of molded blister packs destined for the landfill and transformed the plastic into a cross between a temple and tomb of consumerism.
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A Rubens Exhibition That's All Fat, No Muscle
LONDON — The term “blockbuster” is defined by the equation: major name or subject + major loans = major ticket sales.
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Richest Gathering of Hellenistic Bronzes in Centuries Goes on Tour
In Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, opened last week at Florence's Palazzo Strozzi, more Greek bronzes are assembled than ever before in the modern age.
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A Video Game to Ruin the World and Fill Swiss Bank Accounts
At the 2015 IndieCade East hosted last month by the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, Seth Alter of Subaltern Games said in a talk that he sets out to examine the problem of a genre and then tries "to subvert it and make something new with its existing systems."