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The troubling story fits a tired orientalist theme: Europeans and Americans know more, and care more, about the culture and heritage of West Asia and North Africa than their own inhabitants.
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The Getty’s acquisition tells the story of how a once-scrappy alternative art space withstood decades of economic and cultural change and survived through the present.
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Bradford's new paintings tell us how much we don’t know.
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This week, horizontal skyscrapers, Facebook's Cambridge Analytica meltdown, living in a masterpiece, death tribute cartoons, the politics of Google Maps, and more.
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Martin Barré’s work refutes the American view that painting is something that could be used up — as if it came in a pail rather than a well.
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Rosalind Krauss misreads Twombly in more ways than I can enumerate.
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Trump's Secretary of State, ex-CEO of ExxonMobil, takes the exit ramp.
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The Goethe Institut has invited artists to reflect upon memory and its loss, generating a variety of projects in seven cities across the continent.
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While most US art and history museums have shied away from addressing gun violence and gun control, one institution has remained assertively pro-firearms.
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The Center for Colorado Women’s History, which opened on March 21, is a helpful response to visitor demand for untold stories of local women.
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The Josef Albers in Mexico exhibition is a necessary corrective to Albers’s reputation as more pedagogue than painter and the misconception that abstraction can ever be free of outside influence.
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Thomas Barger, whose material of choice is colorful paper pulp, is part of a generation of adventurous furniture designers reshaping their field in the US.