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Using Google Street View to Counter Mexico's Police Violence
The Google Street View photos of Mexican police and army forces gathered on “100 mts” are raw and menacing.
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Adrian Piper Binds Us with Impossible Trust
The Probable Trust Registry, a new work by Adrian Piper, is not an exhibit so much as an agreement.
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Art Basel Hong Kong on the Verge (Part 2)
HONG KONG — More than US$1 billion of art was for sale at Art Basel Hong Kong, according to insurer AXA ART. But the fair managed to look beyond sales, and also displayed a number of serious counterweights to the frenzied acquisitive impulse.
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Still Gaga for Dada, 100 Years Later
Dada: It was the mother of all revolutionary art movements, shocking in the almost mystical nihilism and concomitant absurdity that it expounded. Anti-aesthetic, anti-rational, anti-idealistic, anti-establishment, anti-literary … anti-everything it seemed!
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Securing a Place in History for a Forgotten Female Painter
PHILADELPHIA — Located in the Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Quita Brodhead: Bold Strokes shines a welcome light on a painter who displayed a level of ingenuity and skill in a range of styles, one who strangely has little name recognition in the United States today.
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Artists Protest Carl Andre Retrospective with Blood Outside of Dia:Chelsea
Of the many things one might expect to see in the industrial chic gallery neighborhood of Chelsea on a Monday evening, chicken blood and guts splayed on the sidewalk is not one of them.
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Art Basel Hong Kong on the Verge (Part 1)
HONG KONG — Art Basel Hong Kong, formerly ART HK and brought into the fold of the Art Basel franchise last year by director Magnus Renfrew, is primarily about place, though it thinks it's about selling art.
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A Guide to Surviving the 2014 Summer Blockbuster Tsunami
Before tut-tutting Hollywood for another summer of what A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis have called “sequel season, when the movie studios celebrate their lack of imagination by disguising it as populism” — a moment of reflection for one of cinematic-summer's greatest visionaries, H. R. Giger, who pas
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Art Rx
This week, you can discover the family history of a Goya masterpiece at the Metropolitan Museum, listen to the creator of the House of Cards TV series talk about politics, or snag a wonderful work of art at WagMag's benefit. And remember that this week is your last chance to see the wonderful Maria
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Standouts from a California MFA Show Worth Seeing
SAN FRANCISCO — This year I finally made it to California College of the Arts' (CCA) MFA Thesis Exhibition. CCA has one of the best graduate art programs in the Bay Area, and I was eager to see the work coming out of its studios.
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A Look at Nick Cave's Stunningly Colorful Show at Jack Shainman's New School
KINDERHOOK, NY — If Jack Shainman wanted to make a splash in upstate New York with his new space The School, then he achieved that goal, as last Saturday's opening brought roughly 800 locals and art worlders together in a transformed schoolhouse in the town of 8,500.
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The Good Citizens of Belarus
Without the freedom to express your political opinions, what does it really mean to be a good citizen? That's the question posed by the photographs in The Winners, a new book by Warsaw-based photographer Rafal Milach.