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Irving Petlin’s Armada of Discontent
Whatever your life story, it is part of a larger history – this is what Petlin recognizes and is perhaps why he suppresses the personal or anecdotal.
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Predator
There is no mistaking the kind who simply take what they want. You can smell them across the room.
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Photographing Northern Ireland's Mean Streets
During the decades that Northern Ireland’s paramilitary violence garnered worldwide attention, most people were busy making ends meet.
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Virginia Wagner’s Landscapes of Exquisite Dread
Wagner would agree with Samuel Beckett, that “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”
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Ruination and Rumination on the Anthropocene
Patty Chang's ecological art struggles with its own fatalism.
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Photos from the Dashboard
Robert Marshall's dreamlike images are fleeting, fragmentary glimpses out the window of a moving car or train.
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The High Life of Vermeer and his Contemporaries
Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting reinserts Vermeer into the tradition in which he worked, both demystifying his paintings and lending force to his particular take on the genre.
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Virtually Explore Centuries of Human Settlement Along the South Carolina Coast
Between the Waters is an interactive documentary on the centuries of human settlement in South Carolina's Hobcaw Barony.
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This Colossal Goat Sculpture Is a Swedish Tradition, and Almost Every Year It Goes Up in Flames
Since the 1960s, the city of Gävle in Sweden has annually built a towering Yule goat, and almost every year someone burns it down.
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An Artist Takes Issue with a Brand's Appropriation of Black Detroit
With "Rethink Shinola," scholar and artist Rebekah Modrak has created a biting, minutely researched critique of an appropriative re-branding of Detroit.
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How Zarafa, France's First Giraffe, Became a Cultural Sensation
In art, fashion, and eccentric hairstyles, the arrival of the first giraffe in France in the 1820s caused a sensation in culture.
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Embracing Feeling Over Logic in Two Artists’ Fragmented Worlds
In their exhibitions at Honey Ramka, Michael Wetzel and Jessica Cannon long for the cohesion of forms and meanings.