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Predicting the Weather for the Apocalypse
From August 2 to 4, artist Amelia Marzec will operate a DIY weather station and satellite radio system at Harvestworks.
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A History of Science Fiction’s Future Visions
The Barbican Centre's Into the Unknown explores science fiction as a cultural force, and how it channels our most optimistic and dystopian projections about the future.
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Rediscovering the Fin-de-siècle Austrian Artist Who Anticipated Expressionism
The first US retrospective of the works of Richard Gerstl provides a detailed profile of the painter who is known more for his tempestuous personality and his tragic death than for his artistic innovations.
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Required Reading
This week, discussing ICA Boston's new Schutz show, the White House gets a new "reality" star, competitive table setting, trouble with Air India's art collection, and more.
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Weekend Words: General
"War is too important to be left to the generals."
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Full House: Artists from Latin America Imagine Home
An exhibition at LACMA offers open dialogue about how the concept of home is understood and experienced.
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Teju Cole Has Not Stopped Looking or Thinking
Combining text and photographs, Cole seeks a combination of intuition, context, and moral intelligence.
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In Praise of Shadow, Color, and Light
Xuan Chen likens the viewer’s experience of her painted constructions to “exploring a newly acquired digital device,” but they have much more staying power than that.
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Babblegate Is the New Watergate
As a carnival of lies and contradictions streams from the Oval Office, our most reliable news sources are The Daily Show and The Late Show.
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John O'Reilly's Radical Photomontages
John O'Reilly's work reflects and refracts the history of art, as well as the history of looking, scanning, and reading an image.
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The Heavy Metal Symbolism of the Salon Rose+Croix
A show of Symbolist paintings at the Guggenheim makes it clear that 19th-century France had an infinitely more interesting fin-de-siècle flip-out than we did in the 20th.
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A Street Artist’s Whimsical Interventions Turn the City into a Playground
The New York-based street artist Tom Bob has a knack for bringing mundane bits of the cityscape to cartoonish life.