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A Slovenian Biennial that Breaks the Mold
Heroic risk is evident in the Slovenian organization of the 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts, which goes so far as to adopt the chance-based exquisite cadaver game as a model.
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5 Art-Filled Summer Day Trips from Los Angeles
As the dog days of summer draw to a close, take a short drive outside the city to see some unusual art.
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A Queer Performance Artist Lampoons White Liberal Activism
On August 31, Dynasty Handbag will perform her over-the-top stand-up show I An, Moron at Joe's Pub.
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The Trickster Artist Behind the I Spy Books
At the Lowe Art Museum, a retrospective dives into the mirrored mazes and optical illusions of Walter Wick, a photographer, illustrator, and children's book author.
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Letting Go of Our Obsession with Memorials
Over the past 50 years we have encountered the incentive to value every material trace of the past more and more, like we are a society with collective hoarding anxiety.
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Unholy Piñatas Modeled After Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights”
The Los Angeles-based artist Roberto Benavidez has made wild, larger-than-life representations from the Hieronymus Bosch painting in the form of piñatas.
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The Origins of Indigenous Objects and the Distances They Travel
On Thursday, August 31, artist Duane Linklater will read an open letter addressed to the Metropolitan Museum about a James Bay Cree hood in its collection.
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Tracing the Lives of Women in Medieval Manuscript Illustrations
Illuminating Women in the Medieval World at the Getty Center in Los Angeles explores the lives of women in the Middle Ages through their representation in illuminated manuscripts.
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Horsing Around With Philadelphia's Urban Cowboys
Mohamed Bourouissa's exhibition at the Barnes Foundation centers on his time with the Fletcher Street Urban Riders Club.
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How Can Ecological Artists Move Beyond Aesthetic Gestures?
If art is to be relevant to the environment, it needs to move beyond an art context to engage with the land itself.
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Required Reading
This week, becoming "fake news," Guatemalan artisans fight back, Larissa Sansour's film controversy, Chinese pro-military film propaganda, the trolls of Vermont, and more.
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Weekend Words: Wall
"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."