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ArtRx NYC
This week, a liberated Regina Rex, queer classical nudes, Mr. Turner at the Museum of the Moving Image, the Brooklyn Night Bazaar, a retrospective of Xavier Le Roy, and much more.
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The Fragments and Facsimiles of Nina Beier
LONDON — When you enter the first room of Nina Beier’s solo exhibition at David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF), you encounter "Scheme" (2014), an enigmatic stack of green crates with vegetables scattered on the floor.
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The Great Echo Park Cardboard Box Art Feud of 2014
LOS ANGELES — The art world is full of rivalries. Add to this list Echo Park denizens Robin and Noodles.
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Cracking Open the Seductive History of Porcelain
MEISSEN, Germany — Of his extensive collection of ceramics, Oscar Wilde once remarked: "I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china." What Wilde felt he was increasingly failing to “live up to” was probably the sort of bourgeois respectability that is often symbolized by a set
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Sea Monsters and Liquid Geography
WALTHAM, Massachusetts — There are two large buoys hanging in the front windows of the landlocked Rose Art Museum, sitting like beacons behind the glass façade. Drawn in by the swollen structures, I climbed the stairs, past Chris Burden’s "Light of Reason," and into Mark Bradford's imaginary waters.
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Gladys Nilsson’s Portraits of Everywoman
There is something wonderfully incongruous and deeply disquieting about Gladys Nilsson’s art, which is primarily done in the medium of watercolor.
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Man of Steel: The Welded Transfigurations of Melvin Edwards
Melvin Edwards' welded relief sculptures conjure up human anguish and human advancement often within the same work. His art delivers the mythmaking spirit of abstract sculpture into the domain of identifiable histories. He has built a long, wide-ranging career around that apparent incongruity.
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Ursula von Rydingsvard and the Drill Bit’s Caress
In a video produced by Art 21, Ursula von Rydingsvard recalls her childhood in refugee camps after World War II, living in barracks made of “raw wooden floors, raw wooden walls, and raw wooden ceilings.” Her current show at Galerie Lelong, Permeated Shield, is the first solo of her long career with
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From Idaho to the Smithsonian, the Journey of James Castle
In 1899, in the remote Idahoan village of Garden Valley, James Castle was born completely deaf. For the rest of his life, he couldn’t hear, speak, read, or write. Our only glimpses into his mind are the drawings and collages he created using scavenged paper and soot mixed with his own spit.
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Rebooting the Legacy of a Woman Who Made Video Games for Girls
Theresa Duncan made a series of CD-ROM games in the 1990s aimed at young girls, encouraging imagination and adventure through playfully drawn, dreamlike narratives.
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Creating Community Space Inside a Dumpster
Of all the places to set up an "inflatable classroom" and community event space, a dumpster seems among the most improbable.
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Uterus Man, Pelvis Chariot, and the Irreverent Video Games of Lu Yang
If there’s any space that both parallels and accommodates Lu Yang’s highly exhilarating and provocative works, it's a sprawling arcade, a cornucopia of weirdness and inappropriate ideas.