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The Designs of Dissent
LONDON — Two inflatable cobblestones, outsized and dully metallic, hang from the ceiling. It’s implicit: these are material agents of anarchy, the airborne heralds of revolution.
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Art Bot Buys Drugs, Tests the Bounds of Consciousness
What becomes of identity and interpersonal communication on the dark web, where anonymity is paramount?
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Gillian Wearing's Masked Confessions
LOS ANGELES — In Gillian Wearing’s work, the artist serves as a conduit for other peoples' confessions while concealing her own subjectivity. In this exhibition, everyone becomes a stranger — both the visitors to the gallery and the people involved in making the work.
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ArtRx LA
This week, there's a show of work from underground film icon Mike Kuchar, LA's longest running photo fair, discussions about art and politics, a screening of the world's first Farsi language vampire western, and more.
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Time Traveling with Jayson Musson and Dave Chappelle
"Maybe all you needed was a little hip-hop pizzazz," says Jamel (James III) in the first episode of artist Jayson Musson's new time travel comedy series, The Adventures of Jamel.
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Cats-in-Residence Is a Cat Show with a Purrrrrpose
LOS ANGELES — The Cats-in-Residence Program, which opened last month at 356 Mission, takes a decidedly different approach, putting the cats themselves at the center of the experience.
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A Cartography of Incarceration in the United States
Data artist Josh Begley has created an online Prison Map that catalogues aerial photographs of prisons, jails, and other American detention centers to give the architecture of the growing prison population a tangibility and scale.
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NYC IDs Now Available (Along with Free Membership at Lots of Museums)
To entice potential applicants, the IDYNC program offers a variety of cultural perks. Here’s a quick primer on why art enthusiasts might want a IDNYC card — and how to get one.
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ArtRx NYC
This is the week to explore France at the Morgan Library, party at MoMA's PopRally, visit the Lenin Museum in Midtown, or learn to dumpster dive in Queens.
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The Embrace of a Tie-Dyed Utopia
There are hurdles to cross before getting to the rewards of Alan Shields: In Motion, in its last week at the Parrish Art Museum, and even then some may be eluded; those found, however, are sweet and sustaining.
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The Merits of Old Masters' B-Sides, at the Frick
Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery, on view in the East Gallery of the Frick Collection, is a gathering of ten paintings analogous to the cohort of masterpieces in the Frick’s adjacent West Gallery. Visitors are left free to consider each as representing a unique, if not significant mom
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In New Orleans, an Exhibition Shines on the Surface
NEW ORLEANS — Gather enough bling in one gallery and the concentration of visual stimuli will overwhelm the need for a clear or convincing curatorial framework.