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An Art Inhabited by Higher Spirits
In his paintings, Joshua Hagler seems to follow a path where logic and convention are left behind in favor of visions and dreams.
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All the Ways Elephants Are Amazing
The Secret World of Elephants is filled with interactive activities about our gargantuan cousins that are as much fun for grown-ups as they are for kids.
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The Affordable Art Fair Is Hotter Than Ever
The NYC show for all types of collectors, open through Sunday, has been attracting more visitors thanks to what organizers say is a “sweet spot” in prices.
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Required Reading
This week: a 200-year-old message in a bottle, the poetry of Marcellus Williams, Ta-Nehisi Coates changes his mind, a new Mozart banger, and much more.
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Christmas Comes Early With Bounty of Eric Adams Indictment Memes
The humans (and rats) of New York are rejoicing.
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Ukrainian Artists Address the War Head-On, Obliquely, and Grittily
Amidst wreckage sites and bomb shelters, artists are making work, manufacturing drones, and celebrating life.
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Art as the Mother of Invention
No Prior Art at the Los Angeles Public Library shows off inventions and patents from unlikely creators and allows audiences to become inventors.
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Did Art History Predict the Rise of Moo Deng?
Just as memes of the viral hippo range from sweet to spooky, art history is rich with terrifying, adorable, and bizarre depictions of the amphibious creatures.
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Robert Shetterly's Portraits Honor Peace Activists
“It’s about people with the courage and perseverance to insist that politicians and media tell the truth,” the artist told Hyperallergic.
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Lee Bul’s Synthetic Angels of History
Her sculptures for The Met’s facade commission look like they’ve always been there, Frankensteined in the bowels of the museum’s ethnographic collections.
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Dorothea Tanning Explored New Worlds Through Collage
Tanning’s practice shows that there is always another door to open, a new world to explore, and that art offers us another possible existence.
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Detroit Museum Celebrates 100 Years of James Baldwin
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History features the work of Baldwin-obsessed artist Sabrina Nelson on the centennial of the famed author’s birth.