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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.
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Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons and the Culture of Hyperbole
Recently, I read a statement by Kenneth Turan, film critic for the LA Times, that struck a chord. As a poet and art critic, it is impossible to ignore the reams of exaggeration I am bombarded with on a daily basis, from blurbs attesting to the gorgeous mastery to be found in a young poet’s first boo
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A Fundamental Rupture: 'Itself Not So' at Lisa Cooley
An intriguing concept: how to create an art exhibition about the inability to communicate? That is what curator Rachel Valinsky has set out to do in Itself Not So, the current group show at Lisa Cooley on the Lower East Side, and for the most part, the selection she has made neatly vaults past the i
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More Now than Then: When Art Reaches Back
The current group show at Canada, Anthropocene, casts a very wide net. The term, which means “new human,” is the name for the current geological period, which began with the transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture, leading to the foundation of formal societies.
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Unraveling the Mystery of a Couple's Life in Photographs
CHICAGO — Large, bright photographs currently fill Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, printed from Kodachrome slides that date to the 1950s and ’60s. The photographs were curated by artist Jeff Phillips but feature subjects unrelated to him — he stumbled upon the slides in 2011 at a
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Take Control of a Robot Programmed to Roam Tate Britain at Night
Anyone can visit Tate Britain without leaving her home thanks to Google Art Project, but how about doing so while its galleries are dark, and furthermore, with greater authority?
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The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of a Chair by Le Corbusier
Amie Siegel's three-part installation on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Provenance," traces the rehabilitation of ruined Le Corbusier furniture from Chandigarh, India, as upscale appetences for chic global lifestyles.
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Two NYC Macbeths and the 1849 Riot Sparked by Their Rivalry
This week the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, announced that its Digital Image Collection is now under a Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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The Retro Aesthetics of Teletext Art
Invented in England in the 1970s, teletext consists of colorful pages of simply formatted, blocky text broadcast on televisions, navigated via one's remote control.
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Deconstructing an Artist's Dubious Claim
PHILADELPHIA — When I first saw William Pope.L’s “Claim” (2009), I was intrigued by its emphatic presence and endless detail. Created for the exhibition Ruffneck Constructivists at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, “Claim” is an enormous wall, about a foot thick, 3