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A Monochrome Painter's Immanent Light
Painter Anne Appleby, who lives on a ranch in rural Montana, is highly attuned to the colors she sees in her landscape, as well as to the changing light and seasons.
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The Last Time I Saw John Giorno, an Extraordinary Performance Poet
In the weeks after his death, I think of Giorno’s poetry — exuberantly queer, unabashedly pornographic, frequently hilarious, sometimes furious, and almost always as compassionate as it is sardonic.
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Janine Antoni Traces the Passage of Time in a Cemetery's Catacombs
The artist’s new commission leaves much to contemplate simultaneously — mortality, desire, and the ways in which absence and longing are such a fundamental part of life.
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Maren Hassinger Reminds Us That Equality Is For Everyone
The power of her work comes from its suggestion that specificity and universality, when it comes to identity and experience, are not mutually exclusive concepts, but often exist side by side.
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Why an Installation About Police Killings in Pakistan Faced State Censorship
Adeela Suleman’s documentary and installation, The Killing Fields of Karachi, considered the human impact of extrajudicial police killings, focusing on the father of one victim.
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Why Libraries Have a Public Spirit That Most Museums Lack
A broad swath of society seems to feel more welcome in a public library rather than a museum. I examined the Brooklyn Public Library as a model of heightened engagement through collective knowledge creation.
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Can Artists Help Preserve New Mexico's Chaco Canyon?
The legacy of artists in National Parks goes all the way back to Thomas Moran, whose paintings of Yellowstone helped incite its park status in 1872.
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An Astronomer, Sound Artist, and More Gather For a Day of Talks and Performances
Highlights include a sound performance based on field recordings in Antarctica and a screening from the creator of visual effects for mainstream films including Gravity and The Fountain.
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Transforming the Cinema Into a Wholly Sustainable Space
The exhibition Ecocinema explores the relationship between humans and nature, and goes a step further: transforming the Kunsthalle into four movie theaters, using sustainable, natural materials.
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Isamu Noguchi’s Creative Friendship With Saburo Hasegawa
By all accounts the two had an intense friendship, and together they created a new modern aesthetic.
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2019's Best Documentaries Come Together for a Week in NYC
As the year winds down, the DOC NYC film festival curates some of the best and most buzzed-about recent nonfiction films.
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10 Eye-Popping and Provocative Art Books to Check Out Right Now
The Acid-Free Art Book Market brought forth booksellers in tune with the cultural and sociopolitical zeitgeist, offering books on detention center architecture, monographs in translation, and new underground periodicals written by people living in the margins.