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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.
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Guy Maddin's Algorithmic Cinema Resurrects Lost Silent Films
The director's latest project with the National Film Board of Canada shuffles scenes into a one-time viewing experience.
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Pastry Recipes, Swiss Dragons, and More in a Trove of Early Printed Books
A trove of early printed medical, scientific, and travel books is going up for sale at Swann Auctions, though many are more valuable for the strange beliefs and tastes they betray about their times.
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Making Free Associations at the São Paulo Biennial
With 90 artists featured from across the globe at this year's São Paulo biennial, it feels imprudent to cast all the work under a single theme.
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The Making of Grandma Moses, Folk Modernist
As she became a commercial success, Grandma Moses was tagged an “outsider” artist — but she emerged “inside” the art world, among modernists.
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Required Reading
This week, the world's tallest tower (again), LA gallery troubles, curating for change, MOCA's ethical issues, branding Ken Bone, and more.
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Weekend Words: Penny
"A penny saved is a penny to squander."
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Simple Pleasures
In his best works Cordy Ryman makes something visually arresting out of ordinary materials and paint — stuff you can buy in a hardware store.
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Better Late Than Never
The art world did not begin to seriously deal with Jack Whitten’s merger of formal inventiveness and emotional content until the past decade, when he entered his seventies.
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Florine Stettheimer: Feminist Provocateur
A feminist, Florine Stettheimer understood the provocative nature of basing her compositions on the rarely seen female point of view as well as the significance of her choice to create an overtly feminine style.
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Toy Story: Chris Macdonald’s Tabletop Sculptures
Is Macdonald trying to tell us that, in some important sense, artworks are toys — that there is no significant difference between the two categories of objects?