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The Beginning Is the End: Mariko Mori at the Japan Society
It's been about a decade since Mariko Mori had a museum show in New York, and much has changed in the Japanese artist's work.
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Sculptural Remnants and Re-creations of Jimmy Page
CHICAGO — Led Zeppelin, man — they were so before my time. Arguably the inventors of heavy metal, the band reached their height of fame in the early 1970s with the song “Stairway to Heaven” on their untitled fourth album. Through the works of artist Karolina Gnatowski, now on view in the artist's so
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Tips on Starting an Art Fair
LONDON — There are plenty of ways to respond to a major art fair: excitement, dread, awe, disgust. What not many people come away thinking is, ‘I could do that.’ But if you have a hankering to build a roster of galleries and drum up a swarm of visitors, the three-year-old Sluice Art Fair may offer a
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Art Rx
The holidays are over — for now — and the art world has shifted back into gear. This week, look out for discussions of social media during Hurricane Sandy, gentrification in the Bronx, the philosophies of free museum admission, and much more.
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The Best Art-cade in South Beach
MIAMI BEACH — Faile's Deluxx Fluxx is an artist-designed video arcade that taps the rich memories of childhoods spent communing with 8-bit graphics and quirky adventures.
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Reading the Rituals of Performance
PORTLAND, Oregon — On a trip to Portland last month, I encountered a number of artists who use writing’s structures and processes to order performance behaviors. But for Lisa Radon, it’s reading, not writing, that serves as the moment of performance.
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Selfies as the Other Side of the Mirror
CHICAGO — What's it like to be on the other side of the mirror? Selfies are contemporary self-portraits shot through the reverse-mirror effect available through smartphones and webcams.
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The Unadulterated Sincerity of Forrest Bess
LOS ANGELES — Along with many people, my first introduction to Forrest Bess (1911–1977) occurred at the 2012 Whitney Biennial. Artist Robert Gober curated a one room show of Bess’s small-scale paintings alongside photographs and documents detailing his theories of pseudo-hermaphroditic transcendence
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Necessary Ambiguity: Sangram Majumdar’s Recent Work
In a media-riddled world where images rapidly circulate, moving from momentary commodity (“gone viral”) to forgotten waste, Sangram Majumdar is interested in “what stays.”
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Action at an Impasse: Esteban Vicente and the Art of Collage
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina — Esteban Vicente was a lyrical abstractionist whose work over eight decades redefines that category. A current exhibition at the Asheville Art Museum, Esteban Vicente: The Art of Interruption, takes its title from Elaine de Kooning's insight into her longtime friend's tech
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For the Love of Paint: Leon Kossoff Digs Deep
Leon Kossoff’s paintings can be counted among the vanishing breed of artworks whose comprehension is entirely dependent upon being in its physical presence.
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The Many Faces of Eleanor Antin
Let me introduce you to a few of the many selves of Eleanor Antin, as they are represented in the show Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin’s “Selves,” currently on view at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University.