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ArtRx LA
This week, there's talks on California design and the avant-garde, a show of new work from a longtime LA performance practitioner, a gallery sleepover, and more!
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The Faces of American Debt
Following the 2008 economic crisis, San Francisco-based photographer Brittany M. Powell had trouble finding full-time work.
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An Opera of Voice, Space, and Place
In a whisper the chorus chants: “Beginning and the end, neither and the otherwise, betwixt and between, the end is the beginning.”
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19th and 20th–Century Bookplates as Deeply Personal Brands of the Home Library
As personal libraries grew in the 19th and 20th centuries, so did bookplates.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, feminism's impact on art, Cézanne at the Met, the personal experience of surveillance, John Baldessari's new show, a bridge's 50th birthday, and more.
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Right-wing Protesters Attack Art Talk in Jerusalem
WEST JERUSALEM — In retrospect, we were complacent. We thought that the opposition would fade away by the time of the event, or at most, the action would amount to a polite protest vigil.
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"Pure Shit" Wins People’s Choice Vote in Storefront’s Critical Halloween 2014
The “People’s Choice” award for this year’s Storefront for Art and Architecture‘s Critical Halloween Costume Competition goes to the people at Robert A.M. Stern Architects for “Pure Shit.”
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Remembering French Photographer Lucien Clergue, a Giant of the Field
PARIS — As the Paris Photo fair drew to a close, the French art scene was distressed by the news that pioneering art photographer Lucien Clergue died on Saturday at the age of 80.
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Hotel Paranoia: An Embedded View of Edward Snowden
BERLIN — A spirit of “fearlessness and fuck-you” drove NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to make his identity public, explains reporter Glenn Greenwald in Laura Poitras’s documentary, Citizenfour.
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Some Thoughts About Richard Serra and Martin Puryear (Part 2: Puryear)
Like Serra, Puryear went to Yale’s famed M.F.A. program (1969-71), but he attended five years after Serra had graduated. In fact, Serra and Robert Morris were visiting artists while he was a student there.
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Some Thoughts About Richard Serra and Martin Puryear (Part 1: Serra)
It is easy to forget that Richard Serra (b.1939) and Martin Puryear (b.1941) were born only two years apart. The different relationships that they developed toward craft and materials makes it all too easy to overlook that they are nearly contemporaries.
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The Topic Is Change, and Artist Robert Waters Sweats It Out
TOKYO — Robert Waters is a 40-year-old Canadian conceptual artist who was born and brought up near Toronto. Later he lived in Mexico City, where he explored the rituals, beliefs and symbols associated with colonial and post-colonial Mexico’s variety of Roman Catholicism.