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Andy Warhol's Self-Conscious and Perfect Bodies
My Perfect Body makes plain Warhol's self-conscious relationship to his own body and fascination with others.
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A Decade of New York City Art and Disco in 10 Tracks
Recent books by Tim Lawrence and Douglas Crimp underline the close relationship between the New York art scene of the 1970s and '80s and that most unjustly maligned of musical movements, disco.
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Remembering the Light in Dark Times: Dispatches from the Turkish Art World
Conversations with artists reveal a dark mood, and everyone is focused on one topic: When to leave? Where to go? What to do in the meantime?
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The Making of Antoine Bourdelle's Early Modern War Monument
An exhibition at the Musée Bourdelle reveals the process behind its namesake's beguiling monument to veterans of the Franco-Prussian War.
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Travel the Early-20th-Century World in Over 700 Films from the Penn Museum Archives
The Digital Penn Museum is a new portal to thousands of objects, videos, lectures, and other archives of the institution for archaeology and anthropology.
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How Art and Law Can Work Together Beyond the Marketplace
On the one hand, the role of the art lawyer has been to lubricate the wheels of commerce. But this approach runs the risk of missing the most illuminating contributions to art law itself.
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Francis Picabia’s Prescient, Painterly Promiscuousness
Thirty years ago, viewers may have found the dramatic shifts in his work bewildering; today it’s obvious that he was an artistic driving force of the 20th century.
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American Artists' Fraught Responses to the First World War
From critical to patriotic and everything in between, a vast exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts displays the full range of US artists' reactions to World War I.
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Guerrilla Girls Find — Surprise! — that European Museum Collections Are Heavily White and Male
The Whitechapel Gallery has recently commissioned the feminist collective to create a new artwork that resurrects the 1986 Guerrilla Girls campaign “It’s Even Worse in Europe.”
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New Art from China Renders Local Histories Fantastic, Futuristic, and Bloody
Each of these thoughtful, well-realized works offers an investigation into global politics, the contemporary as historical, and environmental collapse, with room to laugh, rest, and think in between.
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The Drive-Through Tree, a Relic with Roots in American Tourism
Last weekend, the Pioneer Cabin Tree in California collapsed. It was one of a number of West Coast trees that had holes cut through them in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Memorializing the Forgotten Grave of a Pre-Raphaelite Muse
Fanny Cornforth has one of the most recognizable faces of Pre-Raphaelite art, yet after dying at an asylum in obscurity, she rests in an unmarked grave.