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Repainting the Readymade
Marcel Duchamp’s original iteration of “Fountain” was lost shortly after its making. The first “Fountain” survives only as a photograph taken by Alfred Steiglitz in 1917, which was followed by a series of replicas.
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The Bigger Than Life Team Behind Paul McCarthy's Inflammatory Inflatables
In the last few weeks, Paul McCarthy has catapulted into the public imagination as the infamous artist firmly behind Paris's ill-fated "Tree" (aka #pluggate).
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Flipping the Hierarchy of Needs
What does the work of Will Cotton, Mary Mattingly, and Stephanie Imbeau have in common? Not much, I figured, when taking the G train to Long Island City, where Dorsky Gallery is hosting Homeland [In]Security: Vanishing Dreams.
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A Museum Where the Paintings Look Back
National Gallery, which premiered last month at the New York Film Festival, is the most recent of Frederick Wiseman’s 40-plus documentaries that feature single institutions.
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Artists Put Faces to the Missing Students of Mexico
When 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa, Mexico, were “disappeared” by police on September 26, it didn't take long for residents of the town, and then the state of Guerrero, and then the nation at large to head to the streets to express their rage and sorrow
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ArtRx LA
This week, a classic film from the LA Rebellion is being screened, two LA artists talk Marsden Hartley, karaoke as art is in the spotlight, and more.
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Will Our Future Be Biologically Designed?
On October 28, Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), hosted “Synthetic Aesthetics: New Frontiers in Contemporary Design,” an evening of presentations and discussion about the field of synthetic biology.
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The Sad Story of Jumbo the Elephant
MEDFORD, Mass. — Poor Jumbo. In P.T. Barnum’s hands he became the most famous African elephant in the world — lure to throngs of circus visitors and unknowing shill for countless products. His outsized fame, undimmed by his premature demise, has much to tell us about the rise of a celebrity-driven e
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In the Name of Pablo Picasso
PARIS — The long work on the Musée national Picasso is finally over and it has majestically reopened at the Hôtel Salé, bringing with it a new wave of Pablo Picasso admiration in which I share.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, Hans Haacke is back on the scene and better than ever, we're leading a discussion about alternative economies in the art world, there's an artistic excavation in Queens, talk of riot, conspiracy, or rebellion in Brooklyn, and much more.
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Looking at Art in Tiny Galleries
Located between two busy train platforms at the Odenplan metro station in Stockholm, Gallery 1:10 is no bigger than a dollhouse. Its current show, If You Tolerate This, includes sculptures of books by Henrik Franklins, as well as several paintings, installations, and video works — some so small they
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Telling the History of the First "Illegals" in the United States
Chinese American consciously simulates the American immigrant’s journey: hope, dehumanization, mixed blessings; individual narratives that together paint the greater arc of America.