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Surveillance Photos of NYC Communists and Nazis Go Online
Back in the 1930s and 40s, the NYPD was keeping a close eye on potentially subversive political groups.
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Arles Well That Ends Well
ARLES, France — It first looked to be cold, gray, and rainy on the first April weekend in Arles, somewhat in stride with the general dour spirit of the French these days.
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Art Before Images
When you come across a mirror it’s nearly impossible not to look in it. But what happens when the reflective surface is an artwork — when looking at yourself precludes looking at it, and vice versa? Carrie Yamaoka’s exhibition at PK Shop, titled after the Jimi Hendrix song "Are You Experienced?," is
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Remembering George Dureau
NEW ORLEANS — When news of George Dureau’s death was announced by his gallery this past Monday afternoon, word traveled quickly among my extended circle of friends and professional acquaintances in New Orleans.
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When Depression Strikes
LOS ANGELES — It was 4:20pm when I walked into Depression and encountered Andrea Ursuta’s piece “Stoner” (2013). A batting-cage ball-throwing machine creaked on, spun once, and died before it could eject anything from its quarantined-off belly.
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The Failures of 1970s Suburban Life
In the film Over the Edge (1979), the worst fears of a suburban planned community come true when the teenage residents of the fictional town of New Granada attack a town meeting being held to discuss just exactly what went wrong with the violent, angst-filled youth of their town.
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The Cold War in Florida's Wetlands
MIAMI — Consider, for a moment, the hole-in-the-donut: a confectionary absence that signifies a presence, a sort of vortex of meaning, potentially a Rorschach test.
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A Floating Sound Orb Transmits the Past to the Future
Some people think that ghosts are fragments from people's lives imprinted on the world, playing over and over again after death. A sound project evokes this idea of a "delayed echo" of activity with a dreamlike black orb that floats through the air.
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How to Talk About Norman Rockwell
You must, and shall, begin every single conversation about Norman Rockwell by addressing the question: "Is it art?" And then you must, and shall, say: "It is illustration."
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Artist Continues Battle with Penguin Books over Satire
Miriam Elia, the artist accused of copyright infringement by Penguin UK for her children's book parody We Go to the Gallery, is auctioning off the remaining 10 copies of her first edition run on eBay.
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Searching for the Iconic Amid Post-Industrial Waste
Compared to the wonders of the ancient world, urban sprawl is devastatingly mundane. But what if a mass-produced monument sprang from its overdeveloped terrain?
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Muriel Cooper, 'Messages and Means' at Columbia University
By Muriel Cooper's hand, a charismatic, digitally transmuted Bauhaus aesthetic came to grace the covers of some of the twentieth century's most influential scholarly books on design, architecture, economics, biology, computer science, and sociology.