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There are currently two exhibitions of Joan Mitchell’s paintings and drawings on the same Chelsea street. Taken together, they offer an extended examination of a painter’s process as her sensibilities shift from a dominant mode expression to something altogether different.
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Television may lead us to believe archaeologists lead thrilling lives, crashing through ancient temples and uncovering dinosaur bones à la Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park. In reality, their work is much more quiet and meticulous. Nevertheless, each new discovery — such as the newly unearthed Maya ru
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The model is the message in Artists and Their Models, an exhibition currently on view at the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art in Washington.
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While the World Cup opens today in Brazil, another international soccer tournament is on the horizon for this fall. The Homeless World Cup, started in 2003, will stage its 12th edition this October in Santiago, Chile, engaging players across the globe who live in poverty.
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The Guggenheim Museum was filled with noise on Monday evening during "PAAAAAAroooooooooooole in Libertà Futuriste (Futurist Wwwwwwoooooords-in-Freedom)," an eccentric program that breathed new life into an extensive survey of Futurist art that's been on view since February.
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PARIS — This is a vision of a universalized eclectic global art in forward motion: a relational aesthetic that seems to hover over many exhibitions in France as a great correctness that cannot be questioned, only tampered with.
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KLEINBURG, Ontario — In 2007 he described himself as “the Naomi Campbell of the art world.” Now he’s now hugging trees and talking about staying “in the moment” like a Buddhist zen master.
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LOS ANGELES — I entered UCLA's Ackerman Student Union hoping to blend in with the student body, find my way to a recently uncovered mural, and document the public's reactions with an inconspicuous pinhole camera. But the building is a maze of chain eateries. And, after I pass a Carl's Jr. for the se
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The long-awaited exhibition Lebbeus Woods, Architect at the Drawing Center presents works spanning over 35 years of Lebbeus Woods’s radical architecture.
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"As you look at the screen, it is possible to believe you are gazing into eternity," says an absent, artificial female voice in the beginning of Jon Rafman's NSFW "Still Life (Betamale)" (2013) video.
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The Romantic landscape artists of the 18th and 19th century were so obsessed with nature and the skies above that in 1856 critic John Ruskin called the frenzy "modern-day cloud worship."
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PARIS — In forming an exhibition on the Orient Express, the railroad line most steeped in myth, it was wise to bring in the body of the train itself.