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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 …
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Hans Hofmann's Purple Modernism
In the realm of high-modern abstract painting, the color purple rarely gets the spotlight. So it's exciting to watch Hans Hofmann play with purple and give it center stage in a pair of works on view right now at Ameringer McEnery Yohe.
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Art Rx
There are too many good shows on view in New York to stay in all week — from a spaceship inside the New Museum to new work by Steve DiBenedetto and David LaChapelle, plus a mysterious artist from the 1970s.
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New eBook Turns Space into a Tonal Universe for the Visually Impaired
A new eBook is aiming to make that starscape engaging for everyone, including the visually impaired.
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Big and Bold in Albany
ALBANY, New York — The Albany Institute of History and Art, which has just renovated its largest gallery, is marking the occasion with Big and Bold, a showcase of large-scale contemporary works from its permanent collection
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Selfie Reflections
CHICAGO — There are selfies for every occasion, outfit, haircut, new pair of glasses, and reflective work of art, and then there are accidental selfies in Craigslist mirrors.
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Weekend Studio Visit: Squeak Carnwath in Oakland, California
In July 2006, during a conversation we had in her studio, Squeak Carnwath made a series of statements that have stayed with me, beginning with: “I am a painting chauvinist.”
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Single Point Perspective: Dead Man Rising
Viewing the WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY show currently at the Brooklyn Museum offers a test of emotional restraint as well as the inclination to aestheticize. If the number of images is daunting, the sum of human pain on display registers as a body blow.
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Undiscovered Territory: Will Horwitt's Objects in Space
In 1965, when Will Horwitt was 31, the world was opening up for him. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in sculpture, followed three years later by a Tiffany Purchase Grant. His work was beginning to attract the attention of heavyweight collectors and eventually it found its way into such major public c
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The Museum of Modern Art as Muse
If the howlings this week surrounding the fate of the American Folk Art Museum building are any indication, a low-stakes outrage has gripped the culture pages of virtually every newspaper and magazine in America.
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New Online Magazine Bridges the Divide Between Art and Science
It's no revelation that science and art have long been linked, the curiosity about the workings of the world aligned with artistic creativity. Recently, however, there seems to be more of a movement towards connecting the two worlds into a tighter community.