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Performing Inside the Cocoon
A common harrumph can be heard across the room in any performance art gallery when that dreaded word, c-h-o-r-e-o-g-r-a-p-h-y, is said about someone's work.
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The Ruins, Rubble, and Architecture of War in Art
The architecture of war is more accurately the ruins it leaves behind, but there are structures to this destruction. An exhibition at the partially reopened Imperial War Museum in London is looking at both the rubble and the building of war.
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At the Large Hadron Collider, Art Inspired by the Origins of the Universe
As one of the most ambitious studies of space and time — recreating the origins of our universe and solving some of the biggest riddles of physics — the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, deep below the Franco-Swiss border, is an incredible inspiration for science. And art.
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For Chicago, Detroit Isn't a Distant Reality
CHICAGO — Much like the city of Detroit’s epic economic saga, this story took me on a wild goose chase. I'm an art journalist reporting on Detroit from Chicago — or, if you would prefer, the Motor City from the Windy City — and that seems odd. The media craze around Detroit just won’t quit, and Chic
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Counting the Drawings That Make Up a Hopper
My family took a lot of trips when I was young, and often we didn’t arrive at our destination until long into the evening. I still recall the disorientation of awaking somewhere with no idea how we’d gotten there — the hotel felt unmoored from reality, as though we’d travelled to an entirely differe
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The Urgency of Desire Meets the Immutability of Time
SAN FRANCISCO — Text appearing in all capital letters suggests one of two things, either yelling or someone unable to unlock the Caps Lock key. While I remain unforgiving of this digital faux pas, the show WANT.HERE.YOU.NOW, currently on exhibit at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts certainly warra
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The Joys and Pitfalls of a Museum Turned Playground
CINCINNATI — The play begins with color sketch markers stuffed into an acrylic wall rack adjacent to artist Joshua Davis’s room-sized mural. There are no instructions other than a brief warning about the markers’ potential for staining clothes, but every visitor to the ON! Handcrafted Digital Playgr
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Want Francis Bacon's Paintbrushes and a Taxidermied Ostrich? This Is Your Moment
Have you ever wanted to own Francis Bacon's old brushes, on which scabs of paint gnarl the worn handles, leftover residue of works of warped forms? Well, good news: there's a Christie's auction for you, and you can even pick up a dancing robot and taxidermy ostrich while you're at it.
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Art Revitalizes an Old Mill: Photographs from the Wassaic Project
For the sixth year, the Wassaic Project's annual festival filled its reclaimed former mill with eclectic art that bounded through the old wood beams and into the surrounding landscape among the Hudson Valley hills.
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Ask Me Any (Gendered) Question
CHICAGO — Gender is a fun game to play — if you know the rules and are willing to break them accordingly. As I was working on a story about a queer art show here in Chicago, I found myself thinking about the show as a space for cruising, as if in a bathhouse. Conveniently, much of the art in this sh
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Art Rx
This week, sound and street art, surrealist and queer Chinese short films, dance outdoors, and more.
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Woodliness Is Next to Godliness
Seventeen spartan benches rest in a white-walled room with one window and overhead lighting. On display at Murray Guy, the benches are the result of years of exacting effort by artist Francis Cape to record and reproduce the humble seats of congregants in intentional communities. These groups were A