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Charlotte Perriand's Prescient Designs for Modern Living
While working with Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, for 10 years, Perriand advanced her vision of modern living.
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Literary Drawings Foreshadow an Apocalyptic Future
Robyn O’Neil’s oversized, multi-panel graphite drawings resemble a graphic novel told across multiple walls and rooms. This narrative storytelling makes sense, as O’Neil's cited influences are more literary than artistic.
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Sculpture Does Not Need to Be Permanent to Be Great
Robert Grosvenor unmasks the anti-democratic, hierarchical forces that go into the making of an impeccable monumental sculpture.
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An Outsider Artist Channels His Demons Into Uniquely Funny and Dark Compositions
On display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, works of Benjamin Jones project deep sorrow as well as an unvanquished ray of optimism.
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In Los Angeles, New Murals Crop Up to Commemorate Kobe Bryant
Bryant himself was the inspiration for a few murals even before his passing, but in the days since the crash, new ones have already popped up across the city, this time commemorating both Bryant and his daughter.
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Where Artists and Amazon Workers Align
I saw The Fulfillment Center months ago, but as time passed it wore on me and I became increasingly concerned about the workers — I mean artists — and more ambivalent about the commodities — I mean art.
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Mixing the Modern and Ancient at Master Drawings New York
“I was genuinely and pleasantly surprised to find innovative contemporary works among the typical somberly scholastic approach at this year’s edition of Master Drawings New York.”
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Longing to Know More About David Bomberg, Who Blazed Like a Comet Through London's Stuffy Art Scene
Young Bomberg and the Old Masters, presented in a finite form, could have been so much bigger, more ambitious, and more intellectually adventurous.
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Learn to Make a Sustainable Artist Handbook and Prepare for Existential Crisis
At Navel, community-led learning groups investigate specific topics, from wealth redistribution, to sustainable art-making, to Black ethics in rap.
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Bogotá Artists Document State Violence Erupting in Historic Protests
From photojournalism to conceptual printmaking, visual artists are recording the violence of the ongoing Paro Nacional, or the National Strike.
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A Map and Guide to Art Spaces Across Los Angeles
Two Hyperallergic contributors compiled a directory of some of their favorite galleries, museums, and nonprofits.
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Objects Returned to Benin by French Collectors Had Been Removed From a Contested Auction
The transaction illuminates the role individuals can play in rectifying Europe's history of colonial plunder, but it also reveals the inner workings of a system that allows such objects to land in private hands to begin with.