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Relics of Slavery and Hate, on Display in New York
The objects on display in the New-York Historical Society's Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War exhibition tell the harrowing story of slavery in America through textiles.
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Kazimir Malevich's Little-Known Perfume Bottle
Before artists are lionized, canonized, given major retrospectives at major museums, they are people. And when they are people, they are often poor, and so they must find ways to make money. Paul Gauguin tried his hand as a stockbroker, Henri Rousseau worked as a toll collector for most of his life,
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After Blockbuster Kickstarter, Electric Objects Is Appealing to Artists
It's long been a dream of digital art lovers to easily display internet-based art, so it was no surprise that Electric Objects, a company developing a dedicated high-definition screen and integrated computer to bring art from the internet into the home, quickly blew past its initial Kickstarter goal
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Moving Through Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye
PARIS — I tend to prefer my European gesamtkunstwerk interior spaces lush, flamboyantly mannerist, funny, obscurantist, or noisy.
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Cinema as a Ruin in Madrid
MADRID — The moving image, now at the center stage of contemporary art, not only as video and film but as ‘artists’ cinema,’ was once a fringe movement at a time when recorded tapes were difficult to manipulate and even more difficult to preserve so that many of those early works are now irretrievab
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In Times Square, Trading Shares of Chinese Art
"You ever heard of Bitcoin?," John Wallace asks, pointing to his companion. "You're looking at it."
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Unpacking Willard Boepple's Monoprints
Willard Boepple's solo show of monoprints at Lori Bookstein Fine Art opens with one of the artist's mounted resin works, "Ways and Means" (2002), a purple structure of overlapping translucent geometric forms.
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Despite Dementia, a Life of Art Continues to Thrive
BIRMINGHAM, UK — Britain’s second city is arguably its most ethnically diverse. In a recent search for Birmingham’s most archetypal family, led by Turner-Prize winner Gillian Wearing, the winners were two mixed-race, single parent sisters.
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ArtRx LA
This week in LA, look forward to the West Coast premiere of a semi-autobiographical theater performance, a show centered on the visual art of the tarot card, and a series of shorts by a filmmaker set on bringing back lost or destroyed movies.
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On the Maidan Uprising and 'Imaginary Archive' in Kiev
With a sharp tug, the soot-covered tire slides free from a pile stacked over my head. Then another. And another. Soon I have fifteen tires loosened.
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A Visit to Portland's Graffiti Haven
PORTLAND, Ore. — When I asked artist Rx Skulls where to shoot graffiti and street art when I came to town this past April, his most emphatic suggestion was Taylor Electric.
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An International Stilt-Dancing Collaboration Stands Tall
Laura Anderson Barbata started her international stilt-dancing collaborations in 2001 in Trinidad and Tobago, and since then has forged links between communities in the United States and Mexico. A traveling exhibition focused on the precarious performance practice opened earlier this month at BRIC H