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Required Reading
This week, people who match art, landscape architects and mass shootings, Henry David Thoreau's two-million-word journal, tabloid art history, and more.
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Rudy Burckhardt and Edwin Denby, New York City’s Greatest Flaneurs
Burckhardt and Denby are central figures in New York’s cultural history, even if they are not as well known as they should be.
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Disarming North Korea With Pizza and Sports
What could Dennis Rodman, kimchee pizza, and the Olympic Committee do for world peace?
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Visualizing the Imaginary and Unseen
Nicolas Carone questions our understanding of the image and gives us no definitive answers.
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Ambitions and Limitations of Civic Engagement in the Museum
Philadelphia Assembled differentiates itself by not putting pleasure as its end goal, risking the discomfort of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's guests.
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Rose DeSiano Holds a Mirror Up to Nature
A deceptively thoughtful sculpture series engages with Randalls and Wards Islands’ erased and less visible histories.
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American Monuments Then and Now
The much-anticipated second edition of Lee Friedlander’s The American Monument coincides with the opening skirmishes of an extended battle over the control of history.
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A Doodler Who Taught Himself to Paint
It’s hard not to get the feeling that Chuck Boyce is learning by doing, while, at the same time, making it up as he goes along.
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Ancient Mediterranean Oil Lamps Capture the Pop Culture of Their Time
J. Paul Getty Museum published a free, digital catalogue documenting one of the richest troves of lamps from the ancient Mediterranean world.
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Help Solve a Global Crisis Through an Online Puzzle
Since 2008, the Foldit game has engaged the public in solving puzzles for science. Now it's tackling crop contamination.
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How an Artist's Activism Nurtured His Painting
This exhibition is a ten-year survey concentrating on Peter Krashes's paintings that emerged in an almost symbiotic relationship with his political involvement as a community organizer.
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An Artist Reimagines His Ancestors Through Costumed Self-Portraits
What separates Ken Gonzales-Day’s exhibition Bone-Grass Boy from the mass of artwork addressing the politics of representation is its investment in intimate autobiography.