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Paying Tribute to Lillian Schwartz, a Computer Art Pioneer
Although Schwartz has been producing computer art since the '60s, she's only now receiving her first solo exhibition in New York.
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Considering the Environmental Damage Done by Art Fairs
Built with the collected detritus of art fairs, The Fair Housing Project illustrates just how much good material is thrown away once the tents fall.
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An Interactive Story That Prompts You to Speak an Endangered Aboriginal Language
Only three fluent speakers of Marra remain. 'My Grandmother's Lingo' is an interactive animation that asks users to speak words from this endangered Aboriginal language.
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A Warehouse Haunted by American Political Horrors
Doomocracy, artist Pedro Reyes's new project for Creative Time, is part haunted house and part immersive theater.
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How Cold War Politics Sabotaged Norman Rockwell’s Art
An exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum tracking the drop and resurgence in popularity of narrative art raises much bigger questions than it set out to address.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week the Hammer Museum hosts a retrospective of the Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the California African American Museum throws an opening party for several new exhibitions, artists transform a project space into a freaky and funky haunted house, and more.
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A Naughtier, Contemporary Take on Old Masters Debauchery
In direct response to scenes of mythical debauchery depicted in paintings by Titian and Poussin, George Shaw uses the woodland backdrop to imagine the morning after.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, don't miss a dance project about AIDS, the launch of a book of artists' writings, an international gallery exchange in Bushwick, and more.
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When Edward Weston Took Photographs for Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass'
Although the book was a failure, Edward Weston considered his 1941 photographs for Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' as some of his best work.
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Disappearing in One of James Turrell’s Perceptual Cells
Through a combination of light and sound, for a few moments at least, the work can strip you of all the typical assurances of selfhood.
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How a Leg Splint Shaped the Iconic Eames Chair
Before Charles and Ray Eames made their name with modernist chairs, they perfected the molding of plywood with a military leg splint for World War II.
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Figures in the Industrial Landscape at Gowanus Open Studios 2016
There was a palpable prevalence of work dealing, unconventionally, with human figures and more or less natural landscapes at this weekend's open studios event in Gowanus.