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Depending on Nan Goldin
PARIS — I used to abhor Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” (1979-1986), her famous 45-minute operatic show of 800 color slides set to a choppy 80s pop music soundtrack.
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ArtRx LA
This week, Neckface hits LA, last chance to see Shannon Finley's multilayered abstractions, Byzantine chanting fills the Getty Villa, the first major show to explore the influence of African cultural astronomy opens, and more.
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The Human Face of a WWII Tragedy, in Full Color
LOS ANGELES — In August 1942, thousands of Japanese Americans from Los Angeles began their lives as prisoners on a wide stretch of prairie in northwestern Wyoming.
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Locating Loss, from Damascus to Manhattan's Little Syria
“Audiences are understandably tired of the polarizing and dominant narratives of the mainstream media and political conversations,” Stephen Stapleton, co-founder of the arts non-profit Edge of Arabia, tells me on an afternoon in July.
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Pixels and Peas: A Supermarket Digital Drawing Odyssey
LONDON — For those not already aware of its existence, Middle England is, in its way, as mythical as Middle Earth. But copies of the Daily Mail outnumber the elvish runes.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, you're invited to make a communal public artwork out of reusable materials, reflect on the strange fate of Evita's corpse, watch a cult film classic in a community garden, visit a police station turned street art gallery, and stop by Times Square to see a reenactment of a classic Alfred J
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Tip of the Iceberg: The Vast Underbelly of the Art Market
"It's really business as usual," announced one Fabian Bocart in today's New York Times, apropos the putative stability of the art market.
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David Bowie Is Everywhere
BERLIN — It was impossible, having been born in the 1980s, not to memorize David Bowie's song with Queen, “Under Pressure” (1981), as well as Bowie’s first top-five hit, at age 22, “Space Oddity” (1969) — a song that went on to actually be the first played in space. But I never had a direct relation
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Graffiti and Street Artists Take Over a Historic NYC Police Station
What do you get when you give over 65 street artists and graffiti writers free reign in a former police station? This.
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Artists and Families Draw Attention to Death on the Roads of NYC
Earlier this month the New York City sites of 12 pedestrian or bicyclist fatalities by cars were memorialized with stencils of wings and roses.
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Kandinsky's Cosmic Consciousness
MILWAUKEE — In the foreword to the exhibition catalogue, Bernard Blistene and Alain Seban of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, glue together a new retrospective on Wassily Kandinsky with two words: “intrinsic coherence.”
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A 20th-Century Kiowa Photographer Whose Work Shows Tradition in Transition
For five decades at the beginning of the 20th century, Horace Poolaw photographed a Kiowa community in flux.