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Three Weeks of Performances Honoring Minimalist Composer Julius Eastman
Bringing together years of research, an exhibition and performance series at the Kitchen remembers the remarkable composer.
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The Swedish Artist Who Brought Fantasy to Mardi Gras in New Orleans
The New Orleans Museum of Art is exhibiting the watercolor works of Bror Anders Wikstrom, who designed floats and costumes for turn-of-the-century Mardi Gras.
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Motorcycle-Riding Artists Perform in Griffith Park
Carmen Argote has enlisted a crew of motorcycle-riding artists and collaborators to perform in the park this Saturday.
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Explore the Largest Known Early Map of the World, Assembled for the First Time
A 60 sheet manuscript world map made in 1587 by Urbano Monte has been acquired by the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford Libraries, which scanned the sheets, then digitally stitched them together.
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As Artist-Organizer from Decolonize This Place Is Detained By Israeli Military, Calls for Boycott Grow
A member of the Decolonize This Place art collective was arrested this month by Israeli authorities and he became the latest victim of an oppressive system that continues to impact the lives of millions of people.
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How a Fake Monster Crept Into our Museums
The Fiji Mermaid was an object of fantasy but for a long time it was on display as a specimen that many people believed was real.
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Documenting Experiences of Mecca Both Sacred and Irreverent
Ahmed Mater: Mecca Journeys at the Brooklyn Museum is an exhibition that examines the confrontation between the authentic and imagined Mecca, and of pilgrims with the tourism industry.
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Required Reading
This week, the Disneyland of Detroit, the Dubai Frame opens, Sinclair Media's Trump connection, funerary photos and the politics of social media, and more.
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A Show That Requires a Different Kind of Looking
ROYGBIV at the Kate Werble Gallery represents a diverse gathering of artists – veterans and newcomers, abstract and figurative, from Portland to Tehran.
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A New Year’s Wish
Hoping for sanity in 2018.
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Retooling Paint for the Digital Era
In his quietly dazzling New York solo debut, Ryan Crotty pushes post-painterly abstraction past the anxiety of influence.
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The 2018 Outsider Art Fair, a Preview
Celebrating art made by autodidacts situated, by choice or circumstance, on the margins of culture and society.