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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.
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Is the World's Largest Permanent Sculpture a Monument to Our Times?
LONDON — What will the future think of the world when they look back on the marks we have left? Will it be with the same reverence with which we gaze on the Acropolis hill and the Parthenon that sits upon it as a symbol of civilization and democracy or something less forthcoming?
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It's Hard to Lie in a Drawing
For the last twenty years of his life, Tom Fairs (1925–2007) daily drew in small notebooks what he saw. One of these notebooks is the basis of this exhibition. The notebook was done in June and July of 2004. Of the twenty-four drawings that Fairs made in this notebook, only twelve passed muster. The
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Can I Get a Witness? Working from Observation
Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects is a long and narrow space, somewhere between a bowling alley and a railroad apartment, on the Lower East Side. It is within this rather confined space that Marshall Price, curator at the uptown National Academy of Art, installed eleven paintings by artists committed
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What the Hell Are We Going to Do With All This Junk?
MELBOURNE, Australia — Empty cans, bits of plastic, wire and wood are common sights in city streets. Some of it is very familiar, like the bottle cap embedded in the tarmac out the front of my neighbor’s house that has been there for years. Graffiti, wheat-pasting, and stencils are a common sights i
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Looking Past Initial Judgments About Beauty and Femininity
At the brief question and answer period that followed the premiere of the new documentary TURNING, Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons, spoke briefly about the difficulty of understanding what a work of art means, even to those involved in making it.
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Art for Ordinary People?
BRIGHTON, UK — Under normal circumstances, art doesn't come with a manual. But at a new show in Southwark, London, visitors soon find circumstances are not so normal.
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The Great Refusal: Videos Taking on New Queer Aesthetics
CHICAGO — The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics induces a sort of lonely feel, one that falls closer in line with Lee Edelman's No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, which argues that "the efficacy of queerness lies in its very willingness to embrace this refusal of the social and
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The Raw Side of Performance Art
With smoke and fire, blowtorches and red-hot cattle brands, Non Grata has emerged from Estonia as one of the most audacious and evolving performance art groups to regularly come to and perform in the United States. From last month through the end of this one, the group has been guest curating a seri
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A Tag Sale at the Temple of Modernism
There's a garage sale at the Museum of Modern Art, and no, it's not a high-end, designer consignment sale. Martha Rosler's Meta-Monumental Garage Sale is about as real as they come, from the racks of battered shoes to the "great dad" statuettes, and from the worn lingerie to the splattered cookbooks
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Gallery Photo Policies Versus the Aura of the Artwork
BRIGHTON, UK — If a picture is worth a thousand words, Nihilistic Optimistic is worth about a million. The new show from Tim Noble and Sue Webster at Blain Southern is super photogenic, and therein may lie its appeal.