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Ai Weiwei's Songs of Freedom on Alcatraz
SAN FRANCISCO — It’s a surprisingly clear morning as we exit the ferry to Alcatraz, but the former federal prison still looms like eerie, ancient ruins.
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Film Strips Shining Like Stained Glass
PORTLAND, Oregon — A cavernous room in an abandoned factory that once made window coverings is showcasing a different kind of window. Artist Jennifer West has installed a set of transparent plexiglass frames covered with strips of 35mm and 70mm film.
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Looking at Life Inside a Skyscraper-Turned-Squat
In a little under a decade, the Centro Financiero Confinanzas, or “Tower of David,” in Caracas, Venezuela, has achieved almost mythical status. After being dreamed up by billionaire David Brillembourg in 1990, construction halted on the building in 1994, when a third of the country’s banks failed.
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The Museum at "the Beginning of America"
Dubbed “the beginning of America” by locals, the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse in Maine is situated at the easternmost point of the continental United States.
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Christopher Williams Shakes Up the Exhibition Catalogue
When Christopher Williams’s retrospective, currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, was first proposed, the artist says he was uncomfortable with the idea of a survey.
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On the Left Bank, a Pioneering Conceptualist Gets His Due
PARIS — The Left Bank galleries have opened their doors to a new season of shows, including the highly anticipated Jean Dupuy mini-retrospective, Léon musicien, at Galerie Loevenbruck.
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A Formal Take on Francesca Woodman
LONDON — Out there in the artistic ether is a flimsy Italian geometry notebook, its yellowing pages pasted over with a series of small, square-format photographs.
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Mundane Horror in Abandoned Stasi Spaces
As we creep up on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (November 9, 1989), some of the remains of the oppressive Ministry for State Security, aka the Stasi, remain as if in their own time capsule.
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Out-Burroughing William S. Burroughs
About thirty years ago, I met William S. Burroughs and had him sign my hardcover copy of Naked Lunch, which I duly lost. By contrast, R. Luke Dubois met Burroughs and found a clever idea. He came up with a literary art exhibition that basically out-Burroughed Burroughs.
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ArtRx LA
This week, we have artistic interventions in a classic Arts & Crafts house, jazzy mid-century animation, a dark picnic in Silverlake, and artist talks.
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Of All Stripes: Designing the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
Designer Deborah Sussman — with her husband, architect Paul Prejza — colored the city with environmental graphics that buoyantly exuded the hues of the diverse cultures in LA.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, don't forget about Queens, discuss the intersection of art and science, LMCC open studios sound great, site-specific performance at the Socrates Sculpture Park, a discussion about Brutalism in Williamsburg, and, most importantly, the New York Art Book Fair opens!