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When Leonardo da Vinci Just Isn’t Enough
Leonardo’s “Virgin” meets virtual reality — simpleminded in the extreme.
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Artists Who Resist the Gaze of Collectors
Images by Kameelah Janan Rasheed and an exhibition curated by Sol Camacho avoided trendy visuals or themes at EXPO Chicago.
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Life-and-Death Paintings, From a Career Cut Short
“I’m strongly drawn to saintly artists. I mean people who believe that each brushstroke will save the world or will represent the suffering of humanity in the face of a sheep.”
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Can a Porn Website Liberate Women in Art?
The Pleasure Principle at Maccarone wavers between issues of women’s representation and those of pornography and art, without fully committing to either.
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Photographs That Write With Light
Rose Marasco consciously deconstructs the word “photography” in her montages and photos of diaries.
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Disneyland and Walt Disney World Treasures Go to Auction
What price can we put on the wonder of childhood?
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The Longing of the Diaspora in the Digital Era
In The Curved Body of a Pixel, artist Kimberly Acebo Arteche posits that despite its speed and pervasive presence, technology ultimately fails to narrow wide experiential gaps created by geographic distance.
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Belated Acclaim for Dorothy Hood's Surreal Abstractions
The exhibition Illuminated Earth asks audiences to consider not only Hood’s dynamic and commanding murals as the thought-provoking pieces they are, but also how artistic legacies are made and remade over time.
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Turner Prize Nominees Consider the Injustices Brought About by Borders
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo, and Tai Shani have been shortlisted for the coveted prize.
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An Online Project Documents Settler Violence Around the World
Deathscapes features hard data and articles pertaining to Indigenous issues and custodial deaths, and case studies and artwork responding to deaths worldwide.
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Golden Toilet Heist Becomes Fodder for New Art Insurance Campaign
Arte Generali saw a solid gold opportunity to penetrate the Italian art market, poking fun at the theft of Maurizio Cattelan's gold toilet in its new campaign.
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Considering Photography's Past, Future, and Pitfalls
At a Fotofocus symposium, curators, panelists, and artists leapt into the fray of the medium's existential crisis, rather than just celebrating aesthetics or art history.