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The Golden and then Silver Age of comics that stretched from the 1930s to early 1950s left a lot of unloved heroes in its wake. Forgotten is Fatman the Human Flying Saucer — "the only comic hero with 3 identities" — who could transform his tubby self into a spaceship, and Black Fury the Wonder Horse
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PARIS — Free-floating habits are often hard to abandon. The term “video” as a definable medium — and thus “video art” — is now essentially archaic, due to the convergence of all capture technologies into post-media computer manipulated moving image/sound files.
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — What is Salvadoran about El Salvador is not immediately apparent in San Benito, a leafy neighborhood in the country’s capital San Salvador, where the national art museum, El Museo de Arte de El Salvador (MARTE), resides.
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CHICAGO — Outsider art is an overused, perhaps even misused, term. By a strict definition it refers to someone who makes art outside the official and even unofficial milieu in which artists get training, education, and exhibitions.
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PORTLAND — Way back in 1989, the Guerrilla Girls called attention to the fact that less than 5% of the artists in Metropolitan Museum of Art's Modern Art sections were female, but 85% of the nude works on display featured women. Twenty-five years later, it should be common practice not to create sho
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MARRAKESH, Morocco — A coach full of journalists and Biennale folk gets lost, but it is not yet cause for panic. All we know is we are somewhere between Marrakesh and the Atlas Mountains.
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As our shuttles have gone into retirement and we look to the future of what space travel will mean for human exploration, there are plenty of artifacts left behind with which to examine the successes and failures of our journeying into beyond our atmosphere.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Anyone who's read Arnold Lobel's iconic Frog and Toad series may wonder: why pick a frog and a toad? And what's the difference between a frog and a toad anyway?
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In January 2011, writer and curator Bradford Nordeen launched Dirty Looks NYC, a roving screening series for queer experimental film. Not long after the project's three-year anniversary, Nordeen announced the launch of a new aspect of Dirty Looks NYC: an online publishing platform.
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Plastic toys, bundles of fake fur, stuffed animals, and other accoutrements of manufactured cuteness clutter the walls of Kianga Ellis Projects in Japanese creator Sebastian Masuda's first United States exhibition. Better known as a fashion designer, the Tokyo-based Masuda is a leader of the Harajuk
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Experimental musician Charlemagne Palestine performed last Thursday at Plymouth Church, presenting a vibrant evening of deep organ drones.
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Five passages on Rashaad Newsome's "FIVE (The Drawing Center)."