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The Worst McMansion Sins, From Useless Pilasters to Hellish Transom Windows
Kate Wagner's blog McMansion Hell is like a snarky DSM-IV for all that ails contemporary over-building in suburban developments.
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Adam Pendleton Examines the Multiplicity of Blackness
The artist's largest solo exhibition to date explores blackness as a color, an idea, an identity, a method, and a political movement.
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A Show of Lebanese Art Suffused with the Longing of Exile
At Angela Meleca Gallery, five contemporary Lebanese artists consider their relationships to their home country.
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Astrological Aesthetics: May 2017 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
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The Hammer Museum Examines the Legacy of the LA Uprising
A series of panels, talks, and screenings — including Spike Lee's latest and the documentary Do Not Resist — marks the 25th anniversary of the uprising that followed the acquittal of four LAPD officers who beat Rodney King.
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The Color Palette of Materialism, from Rose Gold iPhones to Millennial Pink Shopping Bags
In her latest exhibition, Sara Cwynar probes our complicated relationship with image-saturated advertising.
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A Retrospective of a Forgotten 1930s Photographer of Famous Faces
The Philbrook Museum is reconstructing the career of modernist photographer Lusha Nelson, whose life was cut short by an untimely death.
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"I Have Seen My Death": The First X-Ray Photograph
In December of 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen revealed the bones of his wife's hand in the first X-ray photograph.
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Required Reading
This week, painters painting themselves as lions, Google's modern day Library of Alexandria, the new Museum of Failure, the CIA and Arab modern art, Chinatowns today, and more.
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Weekend Words: Accomplice
"Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act."
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Sonja Sekula’s Time May Have Finally Come
Sekula was part of a number of different overlapping scenes, and she was loved and thought highly of by many. And then nearly everything about her and her work got forgotten.
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Thomas Trosch’s Pointed Confections
Trosch has not had a solo show in New York since 2009, which is more than a generation and nearly a lifetime in art-world years.