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How a Mark Twain Travel Book Turned Palestine into a Desert
The Innocents Abroad, the most famous 19th-century account of Palestine, is in the end an elaborate, sustained joke at the expense of the peoples and places of the Mediterranean.
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Underdog Artists and Publishers at the NY Art Book Fair
In an effort to promote the underdog, we decided to focus on booths from the artists and publications that will be their state or country’s sole representative.
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Mixing Camp and Classical Myth in a Play About War and Repression
Sorry, Atlantis: Eden’s Achin’ Organ Seeks Revenge fuses classical mythology, slapstick comedy, and 1930s cartoons to tell a timely story about war, race, power, and sexual repression.
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Dwelling on the Metaphor of Home
Artist Gigi Scaria looks carefully at our sense of belonging and home and the uncertainty that accompanies each.
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Revisiting Cold War Ruins in Our New Era of Nuclear Dread
Front Room Gallery on the Lower East Side is exhibiting Phil Buehler's photographs of Cold War ruins, from vacant missile silos to fallout shelter signs.
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The Ways and Means of Activist Art, from Latin America to LA
USC's Roski School of Art & Design is hosting an intriguing conversation around the Pacific Standard Time exhibition Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy, and Activism in the Americas.
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Stroll a Fauvist Shore in a Digital Tribute to André Derain
FAUVISTa is a digital exploration of the Fauvist colors and brushstrokes in André Derain's 1905 "Bateaux à Collioure."
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From the KKK to Darfur, Reflecting on Evil as a Deliberate Act
Evil: A Matter of Intent at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU features works from 1940 to the present, with each addressing evil in its various incarnations.
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Om-believable Buddha in Rings of Lavender
Architect Tadao Ando has created a frame with which to experience the beauty of a giant Buddha sculpture.
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Required Reading
This week, Paris's Lost and Found, a new contemporary museum in South Africa, Google does evil, rescuing a lost Albanian alphabet, logo redux, and more.
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Peter Saul Knows What to Do with the President and a Hamburger
Some artists get the honor of having their work displayed in the White House, but chances are Saul will never be one of them.
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Hoot and Holler with Stanley Whitney
Whitney’s drawings cite influences from Harlem Renaissance literature to bebop.