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Two Public Performances Honor Victims of Japanese Sex Slavery During WWII
At Glendale's Central Park, Yoshiko Shimada and Tomorrow Girls Troop will commemorate this still-festering historical wound.
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Museum Celebrates Hunk of Fat that Nearly Flooded London with Feces
Pieces of the Whitechapel fatberg, which once weighed more than a double-decker bus, are now on view at the Museum of London.
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A Shrewd Designer Balances Craft and Commerce
The artisanal has always been seen as a counterweight to the industrial. Both appear in the work of Patricia Urquiola.
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Required Reading
This week, Ellsworth Kelly's new Texas chapel, visiting the Trump border wall prototypes, woke in Arkansas, whitesplaining the Classics, drones at the Olympics, and more.
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An Argentine Collective of Political Art, Re-examined
Alexander Apóstol’s current exhibition at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires doubles as a show of new work by a contemporary conceptual artist and a retrospective of the 1968 events.
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Back When Painting Was Dead
When Clement Greenberg, Frank Stella, and Donald Judd tried to define what makes a painting, they overlooked a central feature — capaciousness.
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Devin Nunes and His Magical Memo
The art of the indecipherable narrative.
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When Artists Move from the Margins to the Center
The most powerful outsider artworks in Outliers and American Vanguard Art at the National Gallery of Art evoke ideals about all artists: the belief, for example, that they are distinct from non-artists.
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Rediscovering Edward Melcarth, a Gay, Communist Visionary
Kentucky-born artist Edward Melcarth dared to live as an openly homosexual man and did not hide his support for communism.
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A Homecoming for Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw
For fans of Kelley and Shaw, Michigan Stories is a kind of origin story, a way to decipher the work of two multifaceted and prolific artists.
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Leon Golub’s Cycles of History
Golub’s paintings cast the West’s Greco-Roman heritage not as a reflection of reason and order, but as a manifestation of its latent savagery.
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Float Past Flying Fishes and Burning Churches in a VR Bosch Painting
This VR interpretation of Hieronymus Bosch's “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” was the most fun I’ve ever had with a painting.