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The Nuclei of a Material World
NEWBURGH, New York — There’s a new year out, and might it not turn on new ways of looking at questions, problems, and their solutions? Or so we’d like to think, about art as much as life.
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Is Wikipedia the Next Frontier for Museums?
Last year, Alexandra Thom spent ten illustrious months on Wikipedia. Thom, with a grant from the Kress Foundation, helped fill the gaps about art and culture on Wikipedia using the collection of the Brooklyn Museum and the expertise of its curatorial department.
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In Search of a Unified Color Theory
MINNEAPOLIS — It takes real brass for a painter to revisit geometric abstraction and color theory at this point in the art historical game, but Ruben Nusz is no dilettante in that generations-long conversation.
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Tom, Bob, and the Boys: Queering Midcentury Americana
LOS ANGELES — Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland are to queer pop culture something like Picasso and Braque are to 20th-century abstraction: shocking then but still rich and surprising.
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Tigers Forever: Can Nature Photography Inspire Conservation?
"If I win, the tiger wins," photographer Steve Winter said at his talk earlier this week at the Explorers Club in New York. For two decades he's traced tigers through the forests of Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, and India, on a quest for images that would stop people in their tracks, to spend more t
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Jim Hodges and the Denim Sublime
DALLAS — It's rare that I walk into an art museum or gallery exhibition and am unequivocally blown away, but occasionally you can catch lightning in a bottle. That was the case with the Jim Hodges exhibition Give More Than You Take, currently on view at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA).
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Artist Records Sound of the Earth 5 Miles Deep
The sound of being more than five and a half miles under the surface of the earth is something like a yawning, rumbling roar. Or at least that's what Amsterdam artist Lotte Geeven captured in her "The Sound of the Earth" project, for which she descended into one of the deepest holes in the world.
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Art Rx
It's time, once again, for the annual performance takeover of New York City, which means American Realness and COIL are on the bill. Also this week, celebrate five years of #ArtsTech but bid farewell to Recession Art.
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New Selfies for a New Year
CHICAGO — We're starting 2014 off right with lots and lots of selfies. Now that we've crowned the selfie kings, it's back to selfie business as usual.
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A Painter's Sensuous Discipline
Consider two reds: a pure cadmium red medium — all fiery denseness — alongside a burnt sienna, equal in tone but utterly different in character: subdued, stoic, retiring. They jostle and shift, eager to separate. Plunk next to them a throng of blues, some deep and jewel-like, others brightly vacant.
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3D Photographs of Life on Mars, Taken by Robots
Now more than ever, it's fascinating to look at the images we have from the Red Planet, and it just so happens that NASA has a whole collection in 3D.
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Why Does Wayne Thiebaud Love Goop So Much?
SAN FRANCISCO — Wayne Thiebaud, whose exhibition Memory Mountains recently closed at the Paul Thiebaud Gallery in San Francisco, turns 94 this year. Consisting of nearly fifty paintings and drawings of mountains and mesas done between 1962 and 2013, this survey exhibition reveals another side of a p