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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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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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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
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Many neighborhoods of stately row houses that rose along the East Coast late in the 19th century have declined into decay, or been torn down entirely. Yet sometimes there's one solitary holdout standing tall and proud, its neighbors long since demolished.
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On New Year’s Eve I found myself ringing in 2014 at Outlet gallery in Bushwick, watching Miao Jiaxin’s performance piece “News." It was a fitting choice: "News" elicits a hollow catharsis not unlike a New Year’s Day hangover.
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Recession Art, the nearly five-year-old organization devoted to showcasing emerging artists and affordable art, is shutting down its gallery next week. The project will continue to exist online, but Recession's physical space will close and it will not mount any more exhibitions.
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There are plenty of artifacts of Abraham Lincoln, from his fine pocket watch acquired while he was a successful Illinois lawyer to the presidential top hat he's believed to have worn for that infamous 1865 evening at Ford's Theater.
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We've entered 2014 but there is no better time than the present to look back at the art shows of New York that deserve a special mention as some of the most outstanding of the year.
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"Julian Schnabel , Jeff koons, Duchamp ect……"
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What will the arts look like under Mayor De Blasio? "Populist," the New York Times concluded on Monday, a full two days before Bill put his hand on FDR's old Bible and promised to champion the huddled masses.
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PARIS — My long encounter with Philippe Parreno’s vast but fey exposition Anywhere, Anywhere, Out Of The World was anything but otherworldly.
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Back in 1932, a naval historian named Charles O. Paullin and a geographer named John K. Wright published a colossus of cartography called Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States.