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At Frieze London, Feminism Sells, Paul Chan Slumps, and Nothing Ever Changes
At the London mega-fair, a special exhibition champions (and de-politicizes) feminist art, Hans-Ulrich Obrist is everywhere, and political art is conspicuously absent.
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Inspired by Indian Ragas, an Installation of Sound and Light Heightens the Senses
At the MELA Foundation Dream House, Jung Hee Choi's Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest XI seduces, disorients, and transforms.
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The Smithsonian Conserves Blood Pools and Charred Skeletons from 1940s Crime Dioramas
For the first time all 19 surviving Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death are going on public view, with an exhibition opening in October at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery.
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With a Wall of Photos, Bernadette Mayer Evokes a Landscape of Memories
Bernadette Mayer's installation of a wall of images from 1971 is far too evocative of my own history for me to step back and see it “objectively.”
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A Project on the Arctic's Vanishing Ice Launches with an Olafur Eliasson Talk
The Arctic Imagination project is a collaboration between six international libraries that draws attention to the Arctic's disappearing ice.
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Moroccan Identity and Digital Culture Connect in an Internet-Age Funhouse
Meriem Bennani's dizzying, discomfiting, delightful installation at The Kitchen.
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The Historical Failure and Revolutionary Potential of Taking a Knee
When players take a knee in the manner made famous by quarterback Colin Kaepernick, they cut the white emancipator from the frame and thereby create something new: an abolition image.
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Yelp and TripAdvisor Critics Take on Walter De Maria
In light of a posthumously completed work by Walter De Maria at Dia:Beacon, I was curious what the average visitor made of his famous art installations.
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Sculptural Paintings Oozing with Color
Leslie Wayne's richly layered paintings remind us of the playfulness and emotional range to be found in abstraction.
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From Swiss Cheese to DNA, the Inventions of a Seminal Playground Designer
The Art of Play explores the career of Jim Miller-Melburg, who holds a place — albeit an often nameless one — in our childhood memories.
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Watch Alexander Calder's Kinetic Sculptures in Rarely Activated Motion
Watch Alexander Calder's kinetic sculptures in rare activations through videos shared by the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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A Digital Art Tribute to Dada Gets an IRL Gallery Show
Launched in 2015, Dadaclub.online made high-quality scans of three dozen Dada works available for reinterpretation by new media artists. Now, 27 of the resulting remixes are on view in Paris.