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New York’s New Institution Devoted to Arab and Islamic Art Seeks a Sense of Place
Zarina Hashmi's work that imagines "home" as an idea we carry with us sets the tone for the Institute of Arab and Islamic Art's first exhibition in New York.
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From Daily Life to Scientific Explorations, Photos of Latin America Between 1860 and Today
Viewpoints, an exhibition at the New York Public Library, features an impressive array of photographs made in Latin America by local photographers as well as foreigners.
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Confronting Our Existential Dilemmas in a Live-Simulated Fantasy World
For Emissaries, Ian Cheng designed three self-playing video games that take place on a fictitious volcanic island.
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Required Reading
This week, the world's largest watercolor painting, the bedcover Rauschenberg stole, the language of autocrats, Crapumenta, Apple's new HQ, and more.
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Weekend Words: Delay
"We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket."
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Sylvia Plimack Mangold’s Spring and All
I cannot think of another artist devoted to nature who chooses such unlikely, decidedly plain, almost unsightly views, but never makes that act the point of the painting.
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Don Voisine Makes Geometry Sexy
Every color in a Voisine painting has its own material identity. Even the narrow bands edging or running through the panel’s border colors convey a distinctive feel to their physicality.
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Before the Bath
All the time that we spent going about our business, slowly but surely a Trump presidency became inevitable.
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Inquiry Meets Imagination in Jen Durbin's "Jackie Series"
In a series of drawings derived from frames of the Zapruder film, Durbin tracks the shifting spatial orientation of Jackie Kennedy's pink pillbox hat — and by implication, Mrs. Kennedy's bodily response to the unfolding horror.
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Easy Does It: The Slow Surprises of Stanley Whitney
Best known for arranging blocks of thrumming color into large rectangular canvases, Whitney’s major achievement has been to spark a slow burn of surprises, within the least esoteric medium around, large-scale oil painting.
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The Feminist Avant-Garde, Now More than Ever
Their only solution was to make their revolution their own way, without help and without precedent.
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Botticelli's Venuses and Our Enduring Need for Beauty
The Botticelli exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, so filled with the hopes and ambitions of the Renaissance, seems especially timely in our deplorable political moment.