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Memories of China: Yang Fudong's Nostalgic Disillusionment
BERKELEY, Calif. — Yang Fudong is known to chronicle contemporary China’s affluent and disaffected urban youth in atmospheric works that evoke Shanghai cinema of the 1930s golden age.
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Art Rx
Museums are great for holiday weekends, especially ones a little more off the beaten track than, say, the Met or MoMA. If that sounds too mainstream for you ... well, there are always North Korean propaganda films. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Crows in the Dining Room and Other Messy Histories
In three of the period rooms at the Brooklyn Museum, something is amiss.
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The Radical Boundaries of African-American Performance
“Be African-American. Be very African American.” Thus reads a typed instruction on an otherwise blank piece of paper sent by veteran performance artist William Pope.L to Clifford Owens as part of Anthology, the latter’s crowd-sourced performance project staged last year at MoMA PS1.
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The Feminist Politics of #Selfies
CHICAGO — The selfie is an aesthetic with radical potential for bringing visibility to people and bodies that are othered. This week we present to you a few instances of empowerment that we caught via the #feministselfie hashtag on Twitter, which began in response to a post on Jezebel that suggests
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Are We Ready for the News that Peter Young Delivers Us?
In the summer of 1969, Peter Young left New York – and his studio on the Bowery – and set off for the American West, where he drifted around for nearly two years before settling down in Bisbee, Arizona, where he still resides.
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Vanishing Virtuosity: Seven Artists, Seven Drawings
SUMMIT, NJ — Extended technique is a term normally applied to musical performance, but Migratory Marks, a show of seven wall works by seven artists, offers a thoughtful accounting of where extended techniques have pushed the boundary of what can be called a drawing, if there is in fact such a bounda
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Chinese Artist Draws with Smoke
OAKLAND, Calif. — Stare up at the ceiling of any bar or night club that's been around since before indoor smoking was banned and you'll doubtless see traces of smoke on the ceiling. Though a symbol of the ephemeral, smoke leaves lasting marks over time, whether that be buildings or lungs or anything
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Your Guide to Finding Affordable Studio Space in NYC
As prices for studios rise steadily throughout New York, here's a useful guide to finding the ideal, affordable NYC studio and figuring out what your "priorities" should be.
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What If Instagram Was Part of Art History?
Every wonder what art history would've been like if Instagram was around for some pivotal moments?
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How Cartography Helped Make Colonial Empires
If you want to claim a territory, it's good to have a map to show what's yours. Defining Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University examines how maps were a form of political control and public perception by Western colonial powers from the 16th and 20th c
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Paul D'Amato Documents America, or Chicago's West Side
CHICAGO — Paul D'Amato’s large-scale photographs in his exhibition We Shall at the DePaul Art Museum offer a glimpse into the lives of ordinary people and urban landscapes on Chicago's West Side.