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Wandering the Artist Studios of Dumbo
Open studios events allow a type of intimacy with an artist's work that is rare.
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A Feminist Artist's Postcolonial Animations
Chitra Ganesh's appropriations of traditional Hindu and Buddhist artworks are part homage to the past, part alternate realities and part badass feminist interventions.
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Searching for Redemption in Post-WWII German Art
While Inventur proposes that we seek to understand and empathize with these artists, their biographies constantly nag at the moral centers of the brain.
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The Everyday Politics of Conceptual Art
While Michael E. Smith’s sculptures and installations draw on conceptual art, his practice centers on the objects he uses, and the messy details of life.
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Washing Down the Canon with Wine and Oysters at TEFAF New York
Amid all the works by familiar white male modernists on view at the plush and posh fair, there are many superb pieces by women and artists from Latin America.
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Looking Back on Harald Szeemann, Who Expanded What It Means to Be a Curator
Driven by a boundless intellectual curiosity, Szeemann challenged historical narratives and exploded aesthetic hierarchies, expanding the role of curator from simply a steward of objects to a shaper of ideas.
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The Visionary Modernist Experiments of Nicolas Schöffer
An exhibition at the Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art tells the story of early experiments that led to the first cybernetic sculpture in art history
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A Guide to Finding Keith Haring's Work in His Hometown
The artist, who after moving to New York would introduce himself as 'Keith from Kutztown,' left an indelible mark on his hometown.
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In Jacolby Satterwhite’s New Exhibition, a Blessed Road between Heaven and Hell, Body and Empire
Jacolby Satterwhite’s art is nearly the opposite of the fascist, illusionist US government regime we currently live under, and is far more radical — creating something that could otherwise never be.
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Questioning Our Pastoral Fantasies at a Blue-Chip Gallery's Rural Outpost
The rural-chic Hauser & Wirth Somerset has an exhibition that contrasts our idealized expectations of the countryside with the historic realities of agrarian living.
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Found Footage Festival Mines Morning TV for the Absurd
Chop & Steele lift jugs of gravy, karate chop small sticks, and draw attention to a lack of fact checking on morning TV shows.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Forgettable at Frieze New York
The latest edition of the mega-fair is full of extremes, from the very high temperatures during the first day of previews to impressively bad booths and plenty of strong, thoughtful presentations.