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Lynda Benglis, Catherine Opie, and Damaged Art at the ADAA Art Show
The toniest fair of the spring season returns, one week ahead of the Armory Week deluge, for its 30th edition.
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Historical Markers for an Artist's Fictional, Parallel Universe
Eames Demetrios documents his elaborate parallel universe, Kcymaerxthaere, which currently has 133 historical markers in 27 countries across six continents.
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60-Second Digital Projects Push the Possibilities of Mobile Interactivity
Very Very Short is a series from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and ARTE of 10 web-based interactive projects.
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Required Reading
This week, in praise of negative reviews, the tallest building ever to be demolished, the queer history of Ancient Egypt, hiding the history of the Midwest’s mysterious mound cities, and more.
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Trevor Winkfield’s Undomesticated Imagination
Winkfield’s combinations of forms are inexplicable, a seamless fusion of the sinister and innocent.
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Rulers Who Neither See, Nor Feel, Nor Know
Clinging leech-like to their fainting countries.
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Peter Hujar's Elegy for New York City in the 1980s
Hujar’s photographs document the effervescent creative spirit that pulsed through the East Village as the AIDS crisis unfolded.
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Delicate and Detailed Paper Sculptures by Chinese Migrants Detained in the US
An exhibition at the Museum of Chinese in America chronicles the tragedy of the Golden Venture, a ship carrying 286 undocumented immigrants from China that ran aground in New York City in 1993.
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A Giant Robot Artwork Built to Bend Over Border Walls
Chico MacMurtie’s border-crossing robot serves a poetic and political function.
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Artists Build a Lush Landscape Where Diversity Takes Root
In this lush setting where water lilies grow, multiple races, sexualities, classes, and desires can coexist.
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Gucci Runway Show Borrowed Beasts and Beheadings from Renaissance Art
Alessandro Michele, Gucci's creative director, is obsessed with Renaissance art.
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How American West Reenactments Restore and Rewrite History
Photographs of historical reenactments by Edie Winograde suggest there is no single narrative of past trauma: the unfinished fight extends its negotiation to the present.