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The Seafoam Palace: Opening a Museum for the Curious in Detroit
A group of artists and urban explorers are taking on the ambitious task of transforming a deteriorated building in Detroit into a museum of curiosity.
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Flowers Grown from the Topography of a Museum
These are flowers grown from a museum, where the colors, textures, and shapes of exhibitions guided each petal, stem, and branch. British designer Daniel Brown has spent a decade creating these generated plants through an algorithm where mathematics and nature overlap.
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A Community Considers Systemic Support of the Arts
ALBUQUERQUE — As arts communities across the nation work to develop long-term sustainability in the face of the shifting economy, getting people talking together seems like a good first step.
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'Joseph Beuys: Process 1971–1985’ at Rooster Gallery
"Socio-economic illumination, enabled by the evolutionary process of thought, was Beuys’ end-goal," writes Kara L. Rooney in her substantial catalogue essay for Joseph Beuys: Process 1971–1985, the small but ambitious show she's curated at the similarly disposed Rooster Gallery on Orchard Street.
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Exploring the Formal Qualities of Hair
CHICAGO — Monica Rezman makes drawings and paintings of hair. She used to work in the fashion industry, and when she came over to the slower visual world of drawing and painting, she spent a while making careful transcriptions of unraveled wigs that resulted in abstract linear patterns.
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Photographer Captures the Murmurations of Starlings, and Other Avian Phenomena
Anyone who's witnessed a massive flock of starlings soar through the sky has likely been struck by the surprising geometric shapes formed by the crush of wings. New York–based photographer Richard Barnes spent time observing some of the largest starling flocks in the world over a Rome suburb, and th
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Sculptures of Light and Illusion
SAN FRANCISCO — In Stereo, an exhibition of new works by Bay Area-artist Chris Fraser at Highlight Gallery, plays with the ways our eyes perceive space.
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Images at the End of the Frozen World
As the northeast of the United States has been submerged into a deep freeze, it seems appropriate to circulate these chilling images poised to go on view at the Sean Kelly Gallery next week.
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Rediscovering the 1950s Art Scene of San Francisco
Back in the 1950s in the Bay Area, the center for creatives a little off the trail in experimental art was a Victorian house packed to its wooden walls with books. As the home of Jess and Robert Duncan, a couple where within their own relationship there was a constant collaboration between visual ar
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Imagined Books and Phantom Islands: Making Art from Cultural Castoffs
In the early days of motion pictures, when movies were shot in film, editors would physically review footage, handling, cutting, and taping together different sections. Innumerable snippets ended up on the cutting-room floor, discarded, never to be seen again. New York–based Polish artist Agnieszka
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Import, Export, Art, and Asia
SAN FRANCISCO — Import/Export, currently on show at the Asia Art Museum, looks at Asia's impact on our everyday lives.
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The Andy Warhols of …
… New York, Pittsburgh, Morocco, China, Japan, "The East," Iceland, Spain, Seattle, France, Latvia …