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The Artificial Caverns that House America's Underground Business Parks
Hollowed Earth: The World of Underground Business Parks at the Center for Land Use Interpretation descends into the strange world of America's commercial caverns.
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Organize with the Artists’ Political Action Network in LA
The Artists' Political Action Network, led by artists Kathryn Andrews, Andrea Fraser, Charles Gaines, and others, will be hosting an organizing meeting at 356 Mission this Sunday.
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The Subtle Madness of Larry Poons and Jean Dubuffet
Who would have thought that Dubuffet's “art brut” style would eventually find an affinity with the gritty, unconventional large-scale paintings Poons made three decades later?
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A Nomadic Artist's Journey Through the Ancient History of a French City
Anna Boghiguian's exhibition in Nîmes draws inspiration from the city's history, from its days as a Roman outpost to its important role in the global textile industry.
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Beyoncé's Pregnancy Photos Cast Her as a Venus for the Black Diaspora
Embracing and reinterpreting cultural traditions from which black people have historically been excluded, Awol Erizku reimagines Beyoncé into an idealization that has typically been reserved for white women.
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How Mierle Laderman Ukeles Turned Maintenance Work into Art
Best known as the artist in residence at New York City’s Department of Sanitation, the septuagenarian Ukeles is having her first full retrospective, at the Queens Museum.
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Conjuring Paintings' Innermost Thoughts at the Barnes Foundation
In Andrea Hornick's audio tour, the figures of paintings converse and come to life.
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A Play Gives Voice to the "Hottentot Venus"
Running at the Tank through February 12, Hottentotted pays tribute to Saartjie Baartman and the exploitation she endured.
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Ann Hamilton's Portraits that Blur and Isolate
For a commission at the University of Texas at Austin, Hamilton photographed over 500 people at locations around the city through sheets of milky, semi-opaque Duraflex.
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Watch the UK's Oldest Known Erotic Film, a Victorian-Era Striptease
The British Film Institute's newly digitized "The Pleasure Principle" collection gathers examples of erotic cinema from the 19th to 21st centuries.
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An Exhibition Mines the History of SoCal's Gay Motorcycle Clubs
An exhibition at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives restages performances and displays ephemera from Southern California's gay motorcycle clubs of the 1960s and '70s.
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The Lifespan of Bauhaus Utopianism
An exhibition at Paris's decorative arts museum hones in on the myriad ways that students and teachers at the Bauhaus sought to integrate art, architecture, and design into total artworks.