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Art Rx
It's a holiday this week in the United States, so museums and galleries are largely on hiatus or at least their programming is, but that's not to say there isn't a whole bunch of things to do and see for the art lover.
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Take a Good Look at Your Selfie
CHICAGO — A few weeks ago, I thought that I'd had it with selfies It began with a simple Facebook post declaring: "Just say NO to SELFIES <3 <3 <3." Less than a week later, I found myself doing exactly what I feared: Alone in a dressing room at Target, I was snapping selfies with my iPhone, selectin
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Take a Good Look at Your Selfie
CHICAGO — A few weeks ago, I thought that I'd had it with selfies It began with a simple Facebook post declaring: "Just say NO to SELFIES <3 <3 <3." Less than a week later, I found myself doing exactly what I feared: Alone in a dressing room at Target, I was snapping selfies with my iPhone, selectin
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The Architectural Poetry of Lebbeus Woods
LOS ANGELES — “Yeah, yeah, Lebbeus Woods: conceptual architecture ... ” said a friend and recent architecture school grad just before I dodged beach traffic and made my way downtown for a new exhibit at The Southern California Institute of Architecture “ ... never built anything.”
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The Architectural Poetry of Lebbeus Woods
LOS ANGELES — “Yeah, yeah, Lebbeus Woods: conceptual architecture ... ” said a friend and recent architecture school grad just before I dodged beach traffic and made my way downtown for a new exhibit at The Southern California Institute of Architecture “ ... never built anything.”
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Inside the Light: James Turrell in LA
LOS ANGELES — Nothing about Turrell is standard. And everything about his work seems impossible.
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Inside the Light: James Turrell in LA
LOS ANGELES — Nothing about Turrell is standard. And everything about his work seems impossible.
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The Unfashionably Late Modernism of Patrick Jones
DUBLIN — Patrick Jones, an English abstract artist now in his mid-60s, spent a considerable amount of time in America. After studying art in England, most notably at the Birmingham College of Art, he left to get his MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art. This was in the 1970s. While in Americ
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The Wondrous Story of Emery Blagdon’s Healing Machine
Why Blagdon’s “The Healing Machine” (c. 1950–86), which consists of more than 400 separate pieces — paintings on wood, boxes full of found materials, and intricate wire hangings — survived.
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The New Casualists Strike Again
Two years ago, Sharon Butler came out with “Abstract Painting: The New Casualists,” an essay addressing the "studied, passive-aggressive incompleteness to much of the most interesting abstract work that painters are making today."
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Situationist Cycling Through LA's Nighttime Streets
LOS ANGELES — The City of Angels is famously opaque to the average visitor. Unlike New York, the vibe of Los Angeles doesn't reveal itself immediately after you step out of the subway. It doesn't even reveal itself after a few months.
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The Rise of the Artist Newsstand
This summer several art newsstands are bringing independent media to the city streets and subways, with piles of zines and DIY publications offered in the tradition of newsstands. Handsomely constituting a small trend, the newsstands currently installed in New York and Los Angeles are looking to eng