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Lawsuit Decries Limited Access to New York's Publicly Funded Mass Grave
Supported by tax payers on a city-owned island, New York City's potter's field is one of the country's most inaccessible publicly funded spaces.
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Art Basel Miami Beach Sobers Up
MIAMI BEACH — Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB) opened its doors to the public on Thursday for its 13th edition. While many of the works on view deal with political themes, the overall aesthetic of the show is decidedly restrained compared to years past.
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"Animation Attempts" by Alma Alloro
Animation Attempts is a series of short-loops animations that point out the order in what is seemingly random.
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Finding Room to Breathe (and Feel) at Art Basel Miami Beach
MIAMI BEACH — One of the things I find hardest about art fairs — particularly those held in convention centers and large exhibition halls — is their aesthetic. Bright, clinical white everywhere, with temporary walls set at perfect right angles and the gridwork of pipes and rafters floating high abov
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How Mosaics Are Shaping Haiti's Future
When the 2010 earthquake hit Haiti, it leveled much of Jacmel's colonial architecture, and the streets were given over to piles of rubble. In the wake of this disaster, visitors to the country's cultural capital might be surprised to find that dozens of mosaics now enliven its walls, plazas, and pub
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The Art in the Stars
People have been photographing the heavens ever since the invention of the daguerreotype. Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, and Minor White all, at one point or other, turned their cameras upward.
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You Can't Sit With Us at Art Basel Miami Beach
MIAMI BEACH — At Art Basel Miami Beach, the city's biggest contemporary art trade show, the accoutrements of galleries are as significant as the works on display because they contribute to the frame through which we see these wares.
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Discovering Niki de Saint Phalle's Eerie Early Work
MIAMI BEACH — Among the many compelling booths in Art Basel Miami Beach's new art historical sector "Survey" is a selection of early assemblage works and "shooting paintings" by Niki de Saint Phalle that are gloomy, gooey, violent, and unrecognizable from the colorful whimsy for which she later beca
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Epic Done Right: Anselm Kiefer in London
LONDON — Anselm Kiefer’s retrospective comes at an odd cultural moment.
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Untitled Makes the Gradient in Miami
MIAMI BEACH — The Untitled art fair may take place in a stark white tent with a hot pink slice cut into it, but the work inside is every color of the rainbow. In fact, "rainbow" is the most common palette at the fair this year: every other booth seems to feature at least one work in which yellow shi
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A Man's Portraits Over 60 Years, Set Against the Backdrop of a Changing China
In 2007, Chinese photography collector Tong Bingxue received a phone call from a man seeking an appraisal for a recently purchased book of photo portraits. As Bingxue recounts in A Life in Portraits, a quick examination of the book revealed a startlingly unique, unified subject: one man’s yearly por
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Encountering Fluid Fractals in Hanoi
HANOI — On a recent visit, I asked everyone I met who was remotely involved in Hanoi’s contemporary art scene what the must-see experimental spaces were. Nhà Sàn Collective topped almost every list.