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A Tlingit Artist’s Contemporary Take on Her Vanishing Culture
Alison Marks’s sculptures, paintings, and textiles often appear gently familiar, but then take a deeper, more troubling turn.
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Meow Wolf’s Exciting Model for Engaging with Art
As an artist and maker, as well as a writer and someone who understands the deeply rooted desire to touch the art, I was heartened to discover The House of Eternal Return.
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The Common Threads Between Female Quilters and Abstract Expressionists
At one time or other these women's craft was either considered lowbrow or was measured against the work of male contemporaries.
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Pop Goes the Ugly American Stereotypes
An exhibition at Musée Maillol demonstrates that Pop Art did not then, and does not now, matter — because it has never been a site of cultural resistance, but rather a scene of authoritarianism rooted in an affirmation of top-down corporate affluence.
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An Alternative Art Space in Mexico Challenges the Capital's Dominance
With its first show, Puebla's Decentered Gallery seeks to create unique local and international connections rather than responding to the biggest art markets.
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Do the Met Museum's Admission Numbers Add Up?
The bigger question regarding the Metropolitan Museum's new admission policy is who should pay? Donors? The public?
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Seeing Latin America's Modernist Capitals Through a More Personal Lens
Condemned to Be Modern shows how the lived experience of a city can often stray from the historical narrative.
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A Photography Display Infused with the Scent of Flowers
The combination of photography with scent is a curious, if slightly unsettling one.
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9 New Galleries That Opened in New York City in 2017
Don't focus on the closings. Three cheers for new galleries!
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Finding the Roots of Graphic Novels in the Ancient World
Recent research on the use of graphic narratives in the ancient world has revealed their value to everyday people in the ancient Mediterranean — similar to modern audiences’ appreciation for such work.
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One Color But Not One Dimensional
The curators of Monochrome: Painting in Black and White adopt an inventive approach by selecting examples that take the viewer through an utterly absorbing display in which there are almost as many uses for grayscale as there are exhibits.
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How the Cosmos Has Inspired a Photographer's Vision
Thomas Ruff's photographs question history, art making, and the medium itself.