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Required Reading
This week, reviewing Art in the Age of the Internet, Colonial Californiano architecture, the boy in Diane Arbus’s "Child With A Toy Hand Grenade" photograph, the winners of Smithsonian's photo contest, and more.
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Sean Sullivan's Recordings of Sounds and Colors
Inspired by Dada, Sullivan has transformed its dark, destructive impulses into something else.
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Steve DiBenedetto’s Playground of Paint
DiBenedetto is exploring a realm where figuration and abstraction have collapsed, and the body and the paint are inseparable.
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Cowards, Autocrats, and Other Traitors
The stunning candor of George W. Bush’s new paintings establishes his reputation as a 21st-Century Goya, capable of uncovering the humanity in monsters.
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Danh Vo's Elegy for Democracy
Drawing on many genres and styles, Vo meditates on history, freedom, love, faith, and death.
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Photographers Among the Trees, from Steichen to Bae Bien-U
An exhibition at London's V&A captures the dance in life’s stillness and the stillness in life’s dance.
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Joe Overstreet, Painter as Aesthetic Nomad
Overstreet keeps his references to his African-American heritage and Native American influences oblique.
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Picture Yourself at the Museum of Selfies
Selfies — which have been critiqued as symbols of narcissism and celebrated as examples of defiant self-representation — are now receiving the museum treatment.
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A Satirical Museum of Cardboard and Rocks Sounds Too Good to Be True
Mocking the various pop-up museums opening in Los Angeles, Andy Bauch launched a satirical website for an "interactive" museum of cardboard and rocks.
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A Neuroscientist Helps the Peabody Essex Museum Get Inside Your Head
The Peabody Essex Museum is looking a little more inward in its efforts to build its audience — at its own exhibition design practices, and then, even further inward, at human cognition.
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Pushing the Limits of NYC's Periphery at the Southeast Queens Biennial
The inaugural biennial questions how we define the city margins by presenting the work of artists who call the eastern edge of New York City’s largest borough home.
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How Egg Tempera Painters Crack the Mystery of the Perfect Yolk
Just in time for Easter and Passover, we’ve hatched a practical guide to the centuries-old egg-based paint.