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Teetering in a Dark Room
As much as we might feel that our lives are lived these days at breakneck speed, Bruce Nauman’s work suggests otherwise. “Films,” for Nauman, “are about seeing.”
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The Pursuit of Art, 2016
The first painting I saw in 2016 was “Cockman Always Rises Orange” (2015): we can’t say we weren’t warned.
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15 Artists, Shows, and Works Censored in 2016
Here's a look at some of this year’s acts of art censorship.
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Best of 2016: Our Top 15 Exhibitions Around the World
Our picks for the best art shows in the world this year.
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Tracking the 19th-Century Explorer Who Scaled Java's Volcanoes
An exhibition at the Canadian Center for Architecture uses the example of Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, who between 1836 and 1848 climbed more than 40 of Java's volcanoes, to question man's relationship to the landscape.
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Seeking Solutions to My First-World Problems at Standing Rock
Feeling defeated by 2016, I went to Standing Rock seeking a post-Trump formula for resistance. What I found was far messier than what I expected, but no less practical.
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An Iranian-American Artist's Unfinished Abstractions
“Caress my darkness, liminal lover” is the title of three paintings by Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi. Each depicts a brimstone hellscape speckled with cypress trees, plumages of seafoam-colored cabbage, and a single imperial gateway arch. The three paintings almost link up to form a triptych, but they fall just short of
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Best of 2016: Our Top 15 Exhibitions Across the United States
Here's a small taste of what this vast country had to offer in art this year.
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Painting the Violent Life Cycles of Bruises
In his new series at James Cohan Gallery, Mud Root Ochre Leaf Star, Byron Kim paints bruises that radiate tenderness and hurt.
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Mining Portraits of the Past for Stories of Our Shared Humanity
Whitfield Lovell reinterprets found imagery and references evocative cultural touchstones to add further layers and textures to his drawings and mixed media installations.
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A Major Museum Show Maps Martin Scorsese's Raging World
The Museum of the Moving Image's new exhibition on Scorsese brings together some 600 objects — many from the director's personal collection — and countless visual and aural excerpts spanning his more than 40 years of filmmaking.
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Love It to Death: My Year in Music
The best work of 2016 in the land of metal, noise, avant rock, out-there jazz, and in-there experimental.