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Toy-sized Sculptures that Feel Like Daydreams
The sculptures on view in White Column's project room feel like the results of a lot of daydreaming by Joe Howe, who is now 87.
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A Painter Who Captured London's 1980s Reggae Scene
The British painter Denzil Forrester, who is currently showing at White Columns, talks about how he made art and was a fly on the wall at reggae and dub music venues.
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Themes of Return, Exile, and the Sea Trickle Through a Palestinian Art Festival
Producing a multi-city, multi-venue, multimedia contemporary art event is a major undertaking anywhere, but doing so in the environment of Palestine today is fairly miraculous.
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Why Are There Dead Birds on Victorian Christmas Cards?
One of the more curious recurring images on 19th-century Christmas cards is the dead bird, which may symbolize mortality or something more ritualistic.
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A Modernist Houston Post Office Is Reborn as a Colossal Event Venue
With the Day for Night festival, the Barbara Jordan Post Office invites visitors to reconsider what the colossal concrete building could be for Houston.
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A New Art and Design Initiative Will Confront the Sun Belt’s Urban Sprawl
Over the next four years, New Cities, Future Ruins plans on a series of intelligent and creative projects that will face the cultural and environmental realities of the Sun Belt.
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Reboot with the Ancient Japanese Calendar of 72 Microseasons
Forget summer and spring; bring on the season of "The Bear Retreats to its Den."
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A Memorial Exhibition for Tony Feher, Who Found Art in the Unexpected
Five artist friends have curated a memorial exhibition of works by Tony Feher, who died in June at age 60, highlighting two unfinished bodies of work he was developing at the time of his death.
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Tripping Through James Ensor’s Macabre Painted World with Luc Tuymans
Tuymans steps up to the bar, and this feels like a kaleidoscopic tour of Ensor’s clearly voraciously imaginative brain.
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How Artists and Scientists Have Contended with the Cosmos Across the Centuries
The Universe and Art at the Mori Art Museum explores, with science and art, how humanity has wrestled with its place in the cosmos throughout time.
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Splicing Together Portraits of Countries' Leaders
The artist Guney Soykan's Face of a Nation series consists of striking and unusual timelines of countries' political leadership over the past half-century.
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An Audio Tour of the Museum of Modern Art’s Dust
Artist Nina Katchadourian spent two years exploring the dustiest realms of New York's Museum of Modern Art for a new audio tour.