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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
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“Human, Soul & Machine”: Big Brother Watching — and Other Digital Discontents
Against a backdrop of artistic, technological, political and social developments, the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) in Baltimore is presenting Human, Soul & Machine: The Coming Singularity! Timely and full of surprises, it is an exhibition that exudes a sense of urgency unlike that of many ot
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What Does It Mean to Be a Cultural Disrupter?
Coverage of the visual arts in the New York Times hit a new low last weekend in its Arts & Leisure feature, “The Disrupters,” a roundup of interviews with “people who broke the rules” during 2013, “a year of cultural upheaval.”
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Iran's Reinvention Through Modern Art
Asia Society's Iran Modern is a must-see exploration of a period little known in the West but infinitely interesting for its non-Western responses to modernity, its embrace of the developing world, the prevalence of prominent female artists at a time when the same wasn't true most elsewhere, and its