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PARIS — I have never particularly admired French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle’s overly familiar and obvious Nanas (French slang for “broads”) — the gaudy, plump, joyous everywoman figures that made the artist’s case for female affirmation.
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What do the ’80s post-punk band Liquid Liquid, faded family photographs, and Art Spiegelman have in common? All contributed to the creation of Richard McGuire’s latest graphic novel, Here.
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In a recent interview, the Indonesian artist Entang Wiharso proclaimed: “I depict the condition of humans who are often divided by complex, multilayered political, ethnic, racial, and religious systems: they co-exist yet their communication is limited and indirect.”
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There's a fire sale of Larry Clark photos, a performance by legendary experimental rocker Kim Gordon's new group, the beginning of a year-long celebration of Armenian culture, and so much more!
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One of the major textual resources on pre-Columbian Mexico is now online in a digital platform launched this month.
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Serendipitously anticipating the city’s underwhelming blizzard, a troupe of marble snowmen — the latest installment in Swiss artist Peter Regli’s Reality Hacking series — was installed in Manhattan near Madison Square Park this past Sunday.
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"Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed," J.M.W. Turner once said.
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These days, it’s easy to feel that good design is a luxury produced mostly for the enjoyment of the super-rich. But that’s not the whole picture.
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"Brooklyn, the county of kings, has cleaned off its crown, and it's the Kings Theatre," Borough President Eric Adams proclaimed during the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
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Snowmageddon never arrived in NYC — what a slacker storm — so you're probably a little let down and trying to figure out what to do to fend off cabin fever.
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For infrastructure started in the 19th century, the New York City water system is remarkably equipped to support the metropolis of the 21st century.
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As we hunker down in anticipation of what will almost certainly be a less dramatic snowstorm than some are predicting, and begin to formulate plans for the construction of snowpersons that will immediately follow, we offer you this brief and necessarily incomplete survey of artists' snowmen for insp