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President Pottymouth
It's not what you think it is — it's just a dirty hole.
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Vienna’s Prodigal Son
The talent and tumult of Richard Gerstl’s work beg the question of what would have been had he not ended his life.
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Robert Irwin's Drawings Without Marks
Irwin's unlit light fixture sculptures encourage us to see and contemplate the entire space, and ourselves within it, as elements of the art.
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The High Drama of Hot Color in a Field of Black
Jason Karolak’s colors grab your attention like flashing LEDs in a dark-as-midnight casino.
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A Fallen Brooklyn Elm Shaped into Objects That Reflect on Immigration
The Witness Tree Project asked RISD students to design objects reflecting on immigration, made from a fallen 150-year-old elm in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.
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This Way to the First-Ever Show of Women Sign Painters
The Pre-Vinylette Society at the Chicago Art Department is an inspiring exhibition with a vibrant display of over 60 women sign painters from nine countries around the world.
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From Immigrant Stories to Environmental Dread, EXPO Chicago Gets Dark
The Midwest's mega-fair seems less concerned with the bottom line, making space for politics.
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An Off-Kilter Homage to Boston's 18th-Century Quaker Architecture
Mark Reigelman II's colorful public art piece is made up of 20 different parts using traditional woodworking techniques.
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An Exhibition About Revolution that Keeps Faith with Ringgold
It is a great irony that the Faith Ringgold's first public commission was effectively imprisoned for over 40 years, but this situation raises valuable questions regarding our notions of the public and how that public is served.
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A Climate Change Bakery Serving Coal Treats Is Coming to Gowanus
Artist Spencer Merolla's "Coal Comforts" is a pop-up bakery serving treats made from coal ash to encourage dialogue on climate change and pollution.
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How Renaissance Painting Smoldered with a Little Known Hallucinogen
Looking at depictions of St. Anthony in the paintings of Renaissance masters, the influence of the disease of ergotism on the history of art starts to become clear.
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The Few But True Artists Committed to Community
Constant as the Sun at the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art impels us to interrogate what people mean when they say the word “we.”