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A Roundup of Web Documentaries on Joan Miró, Stunt Work, and More
Some of the most intriguing nonfiction film work being done today isn’t coming out in any theater or on a dedicated VOD platform, but on video sharing websites.
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Initial Thoughts and Highlights from the 2019 Whitney Biennial
What not to miss at this year's edition of America's most important survey of contemporary art.
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Deceptively Playful Portraits Mask Personal Traumas
At first glance, Susan Carr's paintings and sculptures appear whimsical and carnivalesque, but grow frightening upon closer inspection.
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The Rise of the Queer Press After Stonewall
Next week at the New York Public Library, founding members of the Gay Liberation Front will discuss the rise of the queer press in the 1960s and ’70s and how it continues to make an impact today.
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Feeling Down? Here Are the Best Bob Ross Pep Talks
All 403 episodes of The Joy of Painting are on YouTube. Here are five of the most inspiring installments.
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Walid Raad Uses Fact and Fiction to Tell a Powerful History of Beirut
Raad exposes the way in which our accepted notions of historicizing events are simultaneously fact and fiction.
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Required Reading
This week, the Venice Biennale opens, the end of the American century, fashion for disabled individuals, the art of Devan Shimoyama, and more.
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Discovering an Unknown Sculptor, 30 Years After His Death
During the past decade, many neglected artists have been reconsidered; this cannot be said for Leo Amino.
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Excavating the Radical Roots of Abstract Painting
With each new exhibition, it becomes more apparent that Don Voisine is adding his own earned options to the legacy of geometric abstraction.
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Purvis Young's Unbounded Histories
Young’s works tell the stories of individuals and communities, of dreams and disillusionment, and of the abysses between life, death, and eternity.
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Mona Lisa, Revisited: History’s Symbol and Muse
With his Mona Lisa Earth Series, Naoto Nakagawa puts Leonardo’s mysteriously grinning subject through a ringer of styles and technical treatments in ambitious, complex images.
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Coping with Climate Change
The gallery NURTUREart has been transformed into a government bureau to help citizens negotiate climate change’s psychological and logistical challenges.