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Judy Linn's Rigorous Geometry
Linn has a knack for noticing the odd and unexpected in everyday life, and seems to have her camera with her at all times.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young AI
An LED display loops a message in Lawrence Lek's installation, which prompts the question “inside the game, can anybody tell the difference between art and the world?”
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Traces of Human Folly in the Alpine Landscapes that Inspired Frankenstein
British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews explored the Alps where Mary Shelley imagined Frankenstein, and the nuclear bunkers there that recall a modern dark side to scientific progress.
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Painterly Visions of Being All Too Human
At best, All Too Human shows well known artists at an intriguing new angle and revisits lesser known names, but at worst makes some perplexing curatorial choices which defy its own set of rules, stretching relevance through some optimistic inclusions.
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Fate of Midcentury Mural in Mexico City Still Uncertain After 2017 Quake
One of the most ambitious muralist projects in Mexico City has been the victim of two major earthquakes. Now the building on which the murals are painted will be demolished.
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Looking Back on William Hawkins, the Outsider Artist Who Became Wildly Popular in His 80s
There is this sense, in looking at Hawkins's bold and humorous paintings, of returning to something one has always known.
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Deciphering Inka Essenhigh’s Blurred Visions
Essenhigh reveals a freedom that resonates with all manner of fusion: of figure and design, of abstraction and narrative, of sentiment and humor, and more generally, of ambitious painting with a readable narrative.
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Maren Hassinger’s Poetic Gestures for Dealing with the Painful Past and Present
"If you are of African descent and your ancestors were part of the slave trade, you have issues which are alive today.”
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Tripping Across the Lines Between Physical and Virtual Reality with Laurie Anderson
Spending time in Laurie Anderson's “The Chalkroom” reminded me of Terry Gilliam’s film, Time Bandits, where what seems like an endless landscape is revealed to be a mirror when someone breaks it.
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A Palestinian Artist and Former Soldier Makes Abstract Paintings with a Gun
In Khaled Jarrar's performance "I am Good at Shooting, Bad At Painting" in the Arizona desert, he used a weapon to create art. Abstract Art.
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Columbia University MFA Students Put on a Strong Thesis Show Despite Department Woes
Students of the 2018 MFA class are presenting strong work at the Wallach Art Gallery, many of them building large installations around their pieces.
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David Lynch Curates an Art and Music Festival in Brooklyn
The Festival of Disruption features Isabella Rossellini, Naomi Watts, Gregory Crewdson, a hefty lineup of musical acts, and, of course, a talk by Lynch himself.