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After the Oil's Gone: Turning a Boomtown's Forgotten Downtown into an Arts Center
The new downtown satellite of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa is part of a reinvigorating of the Oklahoma city's downtown.
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One on One with James Gandolfini: A Brief Reminiscence
CINCINNATI — The Village at the Lift publicity tent has massive, thick walls of white canvas rising high enough to support a second floor balcony. Normally used for large parties, the tent was eerily empty despite it being the opening Friday of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
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Pyschedelic Plans for a Post-Apocalyptic Paris
Out of apocalyptic ruin, a Parisian street-sweeper imagined his city rising again with staggering spires grasping up to the skies. These artistic "blueprints" by Marcel Storr were long secreted away, but recent exhibitions have brought this restless new world into the public eye.
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Calm Down, Menstrual Blood Art Isn't a Big Deal
Chilean art school grad Carina Úbeda Chacana unveiled her exhibition, Cloths, at the Center of Culture and Health in Quillota, Chile late last week and it was comprised of a display of five years of her own menstrual fluid along with dangling apples meant to represent her ovulation.
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The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things
BRIGHTON, U.K. — It was 1624 when the poet John Donne wrote: “No man is an island, entire of itself.” Nearly 400 years later he would have blown a gasket to see the way we use mobile phones and social networks. And were he to have seen a new show at Nottingham Contemporary, he might have been moved
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How Does One Make an Image of Revolution?
LOS ANGELES — What does it mean to be a revolutionary? How does one make an image of revolution? What are the parallels between religion and revolution? And does religion have a place in our current world?
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Art Rx
This week, the doctor wants to make sure you're getting enough variety in your diet. She's got a hodgepodge of events for you, from an artistic walk to an artists' dialogue to an artist's reading, plus a handful of openings.
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A Miniature Kingdom of Infinite Space
In art, control is an elemental if underappreciated principle. At a basic level, art entails control; control over material, control over process, a lack of control over chance. Amid the chaos of life, what do you seek to selectively remove and stage? Richard Avedon viewed it as art’s defining eleme
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The Artistic Vision of an Artist Who Almost Disappeared
VENICE — Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei's six-part "S.A.C.R.E.D." (2011–2013) is a stark installation that sits underneath a round heavenly fresco by late Baroque artist Sebastiano Ricci and surrounded by works by other well-known Italian Old Masters.
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See America's 11 Newest Endangered Historic Places
The National Trust for Historic Places has released its 2013 list of endangered historic places, adding 11 new buildings and locations to hundreds of heritage sites around the country that have been threatened with demolition or decay.
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In Chicago, an Art Crawl on Steroids
CHICAGO — There was an art walk last Thursday evening in the River North district, an area with many upscale, decades-old galleries that some may consider conservative. Paintings and sculptures with big price tags on them shared the space with musicians, visiting speakers, and a musico-theatrical pe
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I, Selfie: Saying Yes to Selfies
CHICAGO — People online have a lot to say about selfies: love them, hate them, feel indifferent about them, think they're part of internet culture, a place we escape to, meld with our offline lives (making for a fluid but often fraught IRL-URL existence), something we learn from. If the selfie is th