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Art for the Hell of It: The Sinister Side of Pop
Maybe the Whitney Museum’s exhibition Sinister Pop should be titled Discarding Pop. And by that I mean Pop as a label that implies a common mindset rather than a common set of tools.
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MoMA Breaks for Recess
I have to be honest: as a child, I wasn't a big fan of recess. All is well and good when you're running around the dodge ball court — until someone gets pegged in the face. Don't get me wrong, I've always been a big fan of capture the flag, and who doesn't love a little fresh air, but that shit can
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Reenacting History through Artistic Performance
CHICAGO — All over the United States, groups of people (usually men) get together a few times a year or more to reenact great battles from history. The US Civil War is popular, of course, but according to Charlie Schroeder’s memoir Man of War: My Adventures in the World of Historical Re-Enactment, t
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The Dark and Funny Paintings of a Skeleton-Clown
This weekend is your last chance to take in the colorful and wry paintings of Scooter LaForge, in his exhibition Super Powers and Special Abilities at Munch Gallery. A New Yorker to the core, LaForge makes works that are brash and whimsical, tough and sweet, and infused with a humor that's both dark
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Culture Hoarders
Looking back on my firsthand experience with The National Arts Club, the concept of it being a bastion of a hoarding ground zero (as it became, depicted in the picture above, under the tenure of President O. Alden James) wouldn't have really rung true for me unless you were referencing a clown car o
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Seeing Performance the Marina Abramović Way
“Your mind is not here,” she explains. Standing in the center of the room clad in a floor-length black dress, she is a sharp contrast to the stark white walls. The sweeping space feels anything but, packed as it is with onlookers — some seemingly starstruck, others bewildered — sitting closely toget
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A Blind-Date Artists' Talk Casts Doubt on Beauty
Despite the drizzle on a chilly evening, there was a packed (if small) house last night at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP); the reason was a conversation between Brooklyn artist Josiah McElheny and Parisian artist Camille Henrot.
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The Snake and the Lost War Diary
CHICAGO — Irena Knezevic's exhibition Night of the World: Flatworks, Multiples and Music Programs embodies a heavy-handedness that could only come from the mind of a Serbian artist living in America post-Yugoslav Wars.
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Remembering Radical, Theoretical Architect Lebbeus Woods
Defiantly non-conformist, anti-starchitecture architect Lebbeus Woods died on Tuesday, October 30. He was 72. Through a lifetime of work, the vast majority of it existing only on paper, Woods challenged the architectural establishment, railing against boring buildings and resisting the temptations o
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From Action to Inaction: The Tate's Exploration of Performative Painting
LONDON — It is with the pairing of two 20th-century giants in one room, Jackson Pollock and David Hockney, that the relationship between performance and painting is introduced in A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance, an exhibition currently on view at the Tate Modern.
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Art Rx
This week, an eclectic mix of events and some difficult choices. You may not be able to do it all, but you can come close.
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Stretching Out Space, Containing Infinity
Once in a while, there’s an exhibition that succinctly presents so many contradictions, it seems that it may overflow from the gallery space, out into the street. That’s the feeling I had after visiting Soto Unearthed at Bosi Contemporary, and I do not mean this in a negative way.