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Why Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Colorado Project Succeeded Despite Its Failure
"Over the River" was never about the sculpture, it was about the attempt.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, contribute to a conversation about the city's cultural plan, cook while learning about the loaded history of corn, discover overlooked films by black women directors, and more.
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From Copley Square to LAX, Standout Signs from Another Weekend of Anti-Trump Rallies
Handmade protest signs were everywhere during another weekend of protests across the United States.
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A Fictional Department of Archaeology for NYC
Artist Joe Bochynski contemplates what New Yorkers will leave behind today for future explorers to find.
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A Showing of Art World Solidarity on Inauguration Day
Far from serving as an excuse for self-pity or left melancholy, the Occupy Museums event was an effective counter-inaugural: a ceremony marking a wider commitment to shared struggle.
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How Art Making Is Like World Building
This group show acknowledges the art-making process as one of world building, in the sense that artists are continuously generating sets of rules to govern their work.
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Drawing the Fragile Vulnerability of Transitioning Bodies
Roey Heifetz’s layers of lacquer, powder, and pigment, and lines upon lines of intensive, unsettling drawing, lacerate the gallery with pain, obsession, and passion.
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Inside the Gypsum-Window Workshop at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque
A day with the team working to preserve a particularly Islamic tradition of stained-glass-window making, using techniques that date back hundreds of years.
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Trump's Signature Is the "Sound Wave of Demons Screaming"
The new US president's jagged, cramped, angular signature evokes lie detector graphs, the Black Gate of Mordor, and other ominous imagery.
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Fights to Withhold Paintings from Capitol Hill Show Their Political Power
Recent disputes over a painting by an 18-year-old and another from the 19th century illustrate art's ability to speak truth to power, but also to become a pawn in politicians' power games.
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Required Reading
This week, new hi-res satellite photos, the face of the resistance, the story of the Churchill bust, Soviet artists in 1960 imagine the world in 2017, freelancers asked to work for free, and more.
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Weekend Words: Resist
"Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."