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Healing History’s Scars in the Art of Kader Attia
Kader Attia's new solo exhibition in Barcelona reminds us of the permanence of scars as well as our ability to heal.
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Contemporary Takes on the French Iconic Tragedy Bonjour Tristesse
A quiet exhibition conveys a unique vision on the outsider’s place in American society.
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A Denver Art Project Envisions Alleys as Social Spaces
Between Us amplifies how we move through cities with small, but surprising interruptions to routines.
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Dance with Digital Flamingos to Raise Awareness of Habitat Loss
Flarmingos is an ongoing augmented reality project, on Governors Island in New York, in which artist Kristin Lucas asks people to join digital flamingos in a dance of ecological awareness.
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The Soviet Art School that Cemented Suprematism’s Spot in History
For a brief moment, Soviet Russia looked like Camelot, and artists like Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich, and El Lissitzky banded together to paint the way toward that utopian future with the People's Art School in modern-day Belarus.
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Disturbing Portraits of Girls Who Murdered Their Mothers Resist Moral Takeaways
Marlene McCarty's Murder Girls series does not give us the satisfaction of a neatly wrapped moral or a happy ending, nor does the artist attempt to rationalize the girls’ actions or to vilify them.
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Detroit's Downtown Synagogue Puts Their Best Sukkah Forward
With Sukkot, the age-old Jewish celebration of life and bounty coinciding with this year’s Detroit Design Festival, the sukkahs on display in nearby Capitol Park are quite innovative and tasteful.
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A Drive-In Theater for Artist Films
The France Los Angeles Exchange has invited artists to screen their work alongside films by other artists with whom they find a resonance or kinship.
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Painter Rackstraw Downes’s Methodical Vision to Extract Poetry from the Mundane
As many artists develop visual ideas through fits of revision and reworking, the consistency in the evolution of paintings in Rackstraw Downes's current exhibition is remarkable.
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Compressing Time With David Wojnarowicz
“Time is now compressed and every painting I do... I make with the sense that it may be the last thing I do," Wojnarowicz wrote after his AIDS diagnosis in 1987.
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The Dazzling and Dooming Art of Cecilia Vicuña
The Chilean-born artist commemorates calamity while transfiguring its ruin into another tomorrow.
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Hundreds of Artists to Take Part in This Weekend’s Bushwick Open Studios
This weekend, Bushwick Open Studios brings a three-day, "open to all" arts festival to Brooklyn.