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David Bowie, the Nobel Prize, and Panic in Stockholm
The current drama around the Swedish Academy has reached Shakespearian proportions, and might even flip the way we look at contemporary culture.
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Natalie Frank's Fairy Tale for Adults Only
Her drawings of animals and people in costume give insight into the darker side of human lust and longing.
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Nathaniel Robinson Questions America’s Feckless Policies
Robinson picks subjects for his sculptures that are disposable and forlorn, belonging to no one.
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Making Prison Great Again
The Congress turns against him. He refuses to resign.
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Outsider Art Comes to the Metropolitan Museum
The entry of works from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation into the Met’s collection has prompted the museum to rethink the way it presents 20th-century art history.
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Chronicling the Stains of History
Born three years after Hitler’s rise to power, the Austrian artist Bruno Gironcoli wandered a postwar mindscape of grim hallucinations and grimmer jokes.
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Laughter and Tears in Hunter College’s MFA Thesis Show
Many of the works by the graduating class of Hunter College's MFA program fall, broadly speaking, into one of two categories: darkly political, or irreverently funny.
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How Archaeology Has Fueled Successful Art Experiments
An arts festival in Athens created an opportunity for international artists to think through the power and impact of archeology on nationalism and history.
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Artists Put Ireland’s Abortion Referendum into Perspective
The debate only appears to be strictly about the rights of women versus the rights of the unborn; deeper, historic, social complexities of female sexuality are all but lost. Art can go further.
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Art Historians Discuss Strategies for Dealing with Work by Abusive Artists
San Francisco’s Legion of Honor Museum invited historians to respond to its Casanova exhibit and share ideas for how to reinterpret and display art history.
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Leon Golub's Visions of Raw, Endless Violence
We cannot escape violence, Golub suggests. We cannot overcome it or circumvent it or negotiate with it.
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The Importance of Havana's First Alternative Biennial for the Cuban Art Scene
In order to understand the importance of an alternative biennial, one needs to look closely at the history of biennials in Cuba.