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At the Forward Union Fair, visitors enthusiastically engaged with the fair participants, chatting and asking questions, taking pamphlets and signing up for further follow up.
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A liberal journalist briefly converses with a red-state elector.
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In the Welsh folkloric tradition of Mari Lwyd, a horse skull visits your home around Christmas, and you must best it in poetry or allow it inside.
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In San Francisco, artists in residence at the city dump are valorized for their work. In West Oakland, homeless people who rely on independent recycling centers are criminalized.
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This week, bad but effective design, Time magazine's "subversive" cover, a good bad review of the Trump Grill, the alt-right targeting of left-wing art spaces, and more.
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"Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil."
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Some painters — following in the footsteps of Arthur Dove — offer us received images of transcendence. John Dilg isn’t one of them.
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I liked Outside In because I found out what five artists whose works I have followed are doing these days.
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An unusual gallery installation in Manhattan raises questions about belonging.
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Katharina Wulff grew up in East Berlin and moved to Marrakesh some fifteen years ago. Her work reflects her situation amid the elaborate, distinctly Islamic decoration that adorns traditional architecture in Morocco.
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The beautiful large-scale retrospective of this major but often forgotten artist’s work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is a truly revelatory exhibition.
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Bill Scott acknowledges that the Garden of Eden is a fiction, and yet he is willing to paint his versions of that place, not as a way to make that garden great again, but to insist that pleasure is a crucial ideal for survival.