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The elaborately baroque art of Matthew Barney puts some people off, and I count myself among them. His Olympian athleticism, symbol-laden costume dramas and obsession with petroleum jelly can be fascinating, but they can also feel chilly and remote.
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The art of memorial sculpture has by its nature an emotional resonance due to its role in honoring the dead, but there's a living, human beauty to it as well. It's these aspects of cemetery sculpture that Italian photographer Mattia Mognetti captures in his 2013 Graveyard People series.
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I like to think of the mythical Netflix Marathon as the process of accumulating inspiration, but it could be more realistically dubbed procrastination. Either way, it has become a talent I’ve honed to perfection, one that I desperately need to figure out a way to work into my résumé.
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Before AIDS activists plastered posters reading "Silence = Death" on New York City walls and ACT UP shouted, "Fight Back, Fight AIDS," the disease had already claimed the lives of thousands of New Yorkers. The first five years of the AIDS epidemic were characterized by a lack of information about th
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Last week when I found myself in Times Square late in the evening hours, there was a man in a perfectly pressed suit, sitting in chair before the TKTS booth staring intently into space. There was a girl in glittery underwear and bunny ears hopping around a construction area for tips. There was the g
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There may be no such thing as a perfect heist, but that doesn't mean there can't be a beautifully designed one. That's the idea behind London-based designer Ilona Gaynor's "Under Black Carpets" project, which looks at the architecture of a city landscape as both an aid and a detriment in her evolvin
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The brilliant and inventive mind of Susan Weil is on full display at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery through June 15. At 83, Weil has lived at the epicenter of the New York art world since the early 1950s, and although her art has been relatively overshadowed by that of her contemporaries, Weil’s curren
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BERLIN — In a visually stunning multichannel video installation, "The Enclave" (2013), Richard Mosse has created an immersive environment that plunges the viewer into the heart of the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The installation in the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Bienn
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As dreams are the fragments of personal memory colliding into our sleep, it makes sense that "dreamscapes" imagined by a prominent fashion photographer would be rich with sleek surrealism and carefully staged beauty.
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CINCINNATI — The trending wardrobe of choice for aspiring female protest artists consists of Day-Glo leotards and matching ski masks. Credit the young punk rock performers known as Pussy Riot, feminist activists who led late 2011 civilian protests in Moscow following Vladimir Putin’s controversial r
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If you only know Crispin Hellion Glover as a quirky actor with the gift of an unsettling gaze, then you're missing out on the major focus of his career as the producer of experimental films that lunge voraciously into taboos. And it's easy to miss, as the only way to see these films is when he scree
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The Bahamas is making its Venice Biennale debut this year with a look at one of history's overlooked Arctic explorers, a man who may have even been the first to set foot on the North Pole.