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Setting Aluminum Animals Loose on the Streets of Detroit
On a recent frigid, polar vortex night, husband-and-wife public art duo Hygienic Dress League set out in a van with a flock of aluminum-molded animals.
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Drawing Refugees' Stories on Life Jackets
For Project Life Jacket, an artist illustrated Syrian refugees' memories of their lives before the war on flotation devices.
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Best of 2016: Our Top 10 Los Angeles Art Shows
These top 10 shows in no way capture a full overview of the art seen in LA this year, but they provide highlights of the rapidly developing artistic landscape of the city.
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Doug Aitken's Masterful Videos and Boring Sculptures
'Electric Earth' illustrates the difficulty of a sweeping retrospective by smashing excellent video work up against shallow sculpture.
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The Ghost Ship Fire and the Paradox of a "Creative City"
We can read into this tragedy the disastrous head-on collision of two conflicting obligations that the "creative city" imposes on itself and its residents.
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The Suggestive Compositions of a Mediocre Caravaggist
The Metropolitan Museum's Valentin de Boulogne show clarifies why this French follower of Caravaggio remains lesser-known, despite the leering details in many of his paintings.
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Best of 2016: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
This list barely scratches the surface of the city's artistic offerings this year, from overdue retrospectives to surprising sides of artists we know well.
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The Snapshots of a Globe-trotting Geographer Before Globalization
The UC Berkeley Department of Geography joined Flickr Commons and shared transfixing photographs from a world-traveling scientist.
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Oskar Schlemmer's Prophetic, Dancing Robots
An exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz highlights the German artist's paintings, drawings, choreography, and costume designs that imagine the integration of humans and machines.
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When Two Drunk Artists Fought in the 18th Century
What could be more absurd than two artists fighting over the personification of temperance?
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ArtRx LA
This week, a campy throwback film screens at Cinefamily, the first Los Angeles retrospective of work by painter Maria Lassnig closes, a dancer performs a blessing for the new year, and more.
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3D-Printing an Army of Forgotten Goddesses to Fight Colonialism
Morehshin Allahyari is developing a series of a dozen 3D-printed statues based on ancient images of forgotten, proto-feminist deities.