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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!
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The Last Victorian Microscope Artist
The art of diatom designs didn't really make it into the 21st century.
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If Yayoi Kusama Designed a Video Game
Hohokum, a video game where you play a long, thin worm that changes color based on direction, isn’t just an art-ier version of Snakes.
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The Key Players in the Ever-More-Complicated Vivian Maier Case
A little over two weeks ago, the tenuous peace surrounding the production and distribution of artwork by Vivian Maier exploded.
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Art as Warning and Protest at the People’s Climate March
On Tuesday, world leaders will convene at the United Nations to discuss all matters global warming at the UN Climate Summit. Across town today, a reported 310,000 people from places as far reaching as Lima, Peru and the South Bronx loudly made their way through midtown to broadcast their message abo
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Harriet Korman’s Chromatic and Linear Improvisations
The key to Harriet Korman’s work is drawing. However, until this exhibition, Harriet Korman: Line or Edge, Line or Color, New Paintings and Drawings, at Lennon, Weinberg she has tended to show only a few drawings at a time.
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In London, Showcases for Self-Taught Artists’ Works
LONDON — Back in the 1970s, England, the home of such pioneering researchers in the outsider art field as Roger Cardinal and the late Victor Musgrave, played a significant role in calling attention to a subfield which, at that time, was still emerging within the art world’s international terrain.
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Memory and Regret: Jenny Holzer’s “Dust Paintings”
Is an exhibition ever too beautiful for its own good? Jenny Holzer’s new show at Cheim & Read, Dust Paintings, is ravishing. But the sensuality of these text-based abstractions, done in oil on linen in mostly muted colors, runs counter to their content, which is derived from declassified government
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Annika Larsson's Bodies Politic
ROME — In Annika Larsson's Introduction at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO), the recent political unrest in Europe is cast between the historical and the personal, with two video works accompanying a vast arrangement of printed matter.
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Seeing New York for the First Time
Photographer Nana Kofi Acquah hails from Ghana and arrived in New York this week to participate in Instagram's first-ever exhibition at Photoville.
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Past, Present, and Future Feminism
One of the most important tools for helping feminism reach a wide audience in the 1960s and '70s was the consciousness-raising (CR) group.