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Testosterone Rules at the Metropolitan Museum's Rock 'N' Roll Show
Will rock music ever be able entirely to extricate itself from a profoundly gendered symbolism?
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An Unlikely Matchup of Paper and Steel
An odd pairing of drawings by Eva Hesse and sculptures by John Chamberlain sets up unintended comparisons between two artists who otherwise seem to share only an ingrained rebelliousness.
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Figures in Clay, Embarrassed and Alive
The tension between classicism and chaos is one of the many things that sets Bruce Gagnier’s art apart from figurative sculpture stretching back to Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel, and Edgar Degas.
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How Much Does an Adjunct Actually Make?
Poverty wages, scarce benefits, job insecurity, and difficulty to unionize. After a spreadsheet about adjunct salaries went viral, professors discuss why their struggle should matter to everyone.
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Marriages, Labor, and Odysseys: The South Asian Diaspora Tells Its Own Stories on Instagram
Academia often treats migrants as homogenous. Social media provides a way to present their narratives in an open and empowering manner.
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Composites of a Constantly Changing Female Identity
Zohra Opoku's sensitive and nuanced consideration of female, cultural, and cross-cultural identities are highly personal and profoundly politically relevant.
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Introducing Isamu Noguchi's Playground Designs to the Next Generation
The Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens will host a free workshop on the magic of playground design by the Noguchi Museum.
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Restaging 1970s Performances That Borrowed From Hollywood Melodrama
The Box is restaging three performances by Guy de Cointet, whose approach would influence fellow Angelenos like Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy.
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How Helen Frankenthaler’s Coastal Escapes Shaped Her Paintings
The summer hues of coastal Massachusetts deeply influenced Frankenthaler; its landscapes and seashores would become her muses for more than a decade.
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After Controversy, Disability Drag Show Brings Down the House
"Project [1]: Crossed Lines" demonstrated that performers are changing stereotypes about art and disability.
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The Visionary Modernist Gardens of Roberto Burle Marx
Brazilian landscape designer Burle Marx married the formal innovations of European modernism with the bursting palette of plants native to Brazil.
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Kiss, Hug, or Get Lost in Olafur Eliasson’s Giant Reflective Spheres
Eliasson suggested that it was just fine for people to touch his artwork. He even said it would be great if anyone wanted to kiss or hug the spheres.