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An Absurdist Play About Art-Making at Hauser & Wirth
In Asher Hartman's play Mr. Akita, artist and performer Cliff Hengst discusses the nature of art with a silent Op art painting by Emily Joyce.
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Colossal Hand-Cut Towers Greet Visitors at Art on Paper
The third edition of Art on Paper opens in Lower Manhattan with a towering trio of hand-cut paper sculptures and 80 galleries from around the world.
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Ladies First at the ADAA Art Show
Women artists are ubiquitous at the most august of the week's art fairs, from canonical figures like Lee Krasner and Lee Bontecou to lesser-known figures like Zilia Sánchez and Evelyn Statsinger.
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An Online Exhibition Asks: What Makes "The Goldfinch" So Special?
The Mauritshuis museum in the Hague created an online exhibition that reveals the hidden history of one of its most popular paintings, Carel Fabritius's "The Goldfinch" (1654).
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An Indonesian Artist Paints Fundamentalists as Buffoons and Monkeys
Agus Suwage’s deeply personal works never stop questioning and working to upend oppression.
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The Brooklyn Museum Looks at Georgia O’Keeffe's Style
Opening March 3, the exhibition Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern examines how the artist expressed her persona through fashion and photography.
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A James Baldwin Documentary Raises Questions About America that May Never Be Answered
Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro delivers brutally honest polemics about white America from James Baldwin.
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A Magazine Named for a Visa Gathers the Work of Foreign Artists in the US
Artist Jenny Hung's O1 magazine makes visible the labyrinthine and costly process of applying for an O-1 visa.
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Fixed on Bodies at the Moving Image Art Fair
Despite a new section devoted to virtual reality, the strongest trend running through the 2017 fair is work grounded in the body and its place in society.
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Activists and Lawyers Discuss Tribal Rights at the Hammer Museum
Tonight, the Hammer Museum is hosting the panel discussion Standing Tall for Tribal Rights, held in conjunction with the current retrospective of the work of Jimmie Durham.
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The Getty's Online Palmyra Exhibition Falls into Orientalist Traps
A new online exhibition on the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra by the Getty Research Institute forgoes the city's historical complexity to take an Orientalist approach.
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In a Rundown Phnom Penh Neighborhood, Graffiti and Street Art Thrive
Graffiti in Cambodia has not historically been very common, but that’s changing fast.