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Robert Gober Looks Into Our Heart of Darkness
In his new works, Gober pulled me into another world, one that was both illuminated by natural light and full of cold shadows.
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Boris Lurie's Search for Historical Truth in Trauma
What’s difficult, perhaps impossible, to show in art is the experience of what passes beyond all comprehension.
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What Is the Future of Monuments?
Testament at Goldsmiths College asks: Can any monument be removed of its tarnish?
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Special Edition: Under-recognized Art Histories
To understand contemporary art, it is necessary to investigate the connections that are sometimes omitted or undervalued in art history.
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The California Dream in the Prints of Frances Gearhart
Gearhart founded a print gallery with her sisters and was at the center of the Arts and Crafts movement in southern California.
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The Edgy and Lucid Video Art of Rafael França
Video art was something you watched “with the lights on,” as França insisted, without pretenses of high art.
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The Legacy of a Pioneering Subway Artist Lives On in a Final Art Book
PHASE 2 would emerge as an innovator in New York’s burgeoning subway art movement, creating elaborate murals that would shape the evolution of both the spray can and the art form.
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A Tale of Two Countries: Finding Indo-Caribbean Shakti in Colorado
While the South Asian diaspora is one of the largest and most widely dispersed in the world, the Indo-Caribbean community is often overlooked and excluded from discussions of South Asian art.
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Remembering the Legacy of a Larger-Than-Life Artist, Sam Tchakalian
The Bay Area artist believed in shaping artists rather than relaying rules.
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Programming Language Design as Art
Open-ended, community based, and collaborative, "esolangs" serve as a reminder that digital art has other histories and other futures.
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The Cass Corridor Movement's Salvation Through Salvage
Working with what they had, Cass Corridor artists scrapped and repurposed anything they could get their hands on, attempting to find some salvation for their city through a literal process of salvage and reuse.
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How Alternative Art Spaces Changed Los Angeles in the 1970s
Throughout the 1970s and into the ’80s, artists in Los Angeles created organizations and exhibition spaces to develop the resources they lacked.