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The Loneliness of Luis Barragán's Domestic Spaces
James Casebere's latest photographs show the modernist homes of Luis Barragán alluringly yet threateningly devoid of people or any signs of human habitation.
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Potent Photos of New York City Protests in the 1980s and '90s
Whose Streets? Our Streets! New York City: 1980–2000, now on view at the Bronx Documentary Center, collects 20 years of protest photography in New York City.
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On a Foggy Film Set, Karl Marx Sings "The Internationale"
The latest iteration of artist and curator Willy Kautz's Jippies Asquerosos ("dirty hippies") project takes up themes of religion, capitalism, and communism with lightness and theatricality.
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Required Reading
This week, Lady Liberty gets a "Refugees Welcome" banner, critics hate on Amy Feldman and Jason Rhoades, Warhol's cause of death may be more complicated than we think, drawing black comic characters, and more.
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Weekend Words: Sign
"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
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Elliott Green Can See for Miles and Miles and Miles
Elliott Green has channeled the landscape paintings of the early Northern Song dynasty along with the fantastical landscapes of the Sienese painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
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Robert Mangold’s Sense of Things
For Mangold, more than any other artist of his generation, painting is contingent, rather than self-sufficient. It is part of an active relationship.
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To Haunt Us Out of Now
If this kind of wacko fear-mongering is part of the new American norm, I think the best thing art can do is spook us out of this existence.
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Creature Discomfort: Art in the Cycle of History
It makes sense, at this most critical moment, to take a serious look at the art of the 1980s, its political fury and layered poetics, as an anchor in the storm.
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David Reed Did Not Go Along with Those Who Threw the Baby Out with the Bathwater
Making a brushstroke painting in the mid-1970s — a decade after Greenberg, Stella, and Lichtenstein gleefully presided over its burial — was foolhardy and brave.
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The Emotional Pull of Len Lye's Motion Sculptures
An exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery demonstrates how Lye strove to evoke concrete feelings through fleeting motion.
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A Game Challenges You to Find the Folks Hidden in Hand-Drawn Environments
Hidden Folks is a hand-drawn game of discovery by Adriaan de Jongh and Sylvain Tegroeg where you find hidden people and objects in an illustrated world.