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This Addictive M.C. Escher Video Game Might Make You Puke
Antoine Zanuttini's Fragments of Euclid is a downright mind-bending game inspired by M.C. Escher's labyrinthine interiors.
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The Messy Politics of Documenta's Arrival in Athens
As documenta opens for the first time in Athens, Greek artists and anthropologists are closely observing how the German quinquennial will respond to its new location.
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Bouquets Highlight Plants Used to Control Women’s Reproductive Health
An exhibition looks at plant remedies that women have used to control their reproductive lives.
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Required Reading
This week, the story of Emmett Till's image in the coffin, New York's new copper skyscrapers, Damien Hirst is back, why authoritarians hate the arts, calorie counts for cannibals, and more.
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Weekend Words: Mask
"A mask of gold hides all deformities."
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Everybody Should Want to Belong to Sedrick Huckaby’s Tribe
Huckaby, who lives in Fort Worth, Texas, where he was raised, and teaches at the University of Texas at Arlington, draws people he knows: family, friends, and neighbors in the African American community: he makes the local become something more.
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Dawn Clements’ Love of Things
Clements’ dedication to drawing — “the way she sees,” as she once told Susan Swenson — is registered in the shifts and jumps in perspective, and in her use of separate sheets of paper to define the limits of her focus.
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Spirits and Hungry Ghosts
It was time for Donald to go to the temple.
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Roger Bissière, The Last "Primitive"
With the death of the French painter Roger Bissière in 1964, a whole chapter of Modernism, one that we could call the “Primitive Paradigm,” came to a close.
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Painting Isn’t Dead! It’s Just Slow
Quicktime takes its cue from Raphael Rubinstein’s “Provisional Painting,” published in the May 2009 issue of Art in America. In the essay, Rubinstein discusses a handful of artists who seem to “turn away from ‘strong’ painting” in favor of works “that look casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished o
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At the 2017 Dallas Art Fair, Big Ambitions and the Big Mo
Mayor Mike Rawlings recently announced that the city’s annual Dallas Arts Week would become Dallas Arts Month, starting on April 1. Its centerpiece, the Dallas Art Fair, now in its ninth edition, has become a symbol of the local arts scene’s impressive growth and increasing momentum.
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Explore a Growing Archive of American Gardens with a New Smithsonian App
Smithsonian Gardens launched a free app to share and collect American gardening stories, from 19th-century Detroit potato patches to community greenspaces in vacant lots.