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The Work of Hands: Rachel Beach’s ‘Touchstone’
By foregrounding the schism between form and content, Rachel Beach is demonstrating the agitated unity of her handmade domain.
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A Collective Reading at the White House Reenvisions Who Might Be President
One hundred people gathered to adapt Zoe Leonard's 1992 text piece “I want a president...” for 2016.
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Considering Community as Art Galleries Help Gentrify Harlem
A new wave of art galleries are starting to move up uptown from Chelsea and lower Manhattan, and it is time to ask serious questions about their impact and what we can do to guarantee Harlem survives culturally.
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The History of Gowanus Cemented in Sculpture
A collaboration between artist Christina Kelly and author Amy Sohn pairs cast concrete objects with true stories about long-ago Gowanus residents.
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A 10-Year Project to Crochet Our Dying Coral Reefs
The Museum of Arts and Design marks 10 years of Margaret and Christine Wertheim's "Crochet Coral Reef" project, a vibrant response to the destruction of our ocean life.
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With Satire, Whimsy, and Fermented Milk, Art Collective Skewers Eurocentrism
Slavs and Tatars come on in full force, filling both floors of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery with their irony-imbued mixed-media work.
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A Virtual Reality Journey to a Remote Corner of the Himalayas
Shezad Dawood's new exhibition at Timothy Taylor gallery consists of screenprinted canvases, bronze and concrete statues, and a central virtual reality experience that interpolates visitors to various worlds of experience
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Bruce Nauman Grows Up
In a new work by the artist, what stands out is an inescapable contrast between the older and younger Nauman.
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Musing Over a Memoir by a Chronicler of the Downtown New York Art Scene
Tama Janowitz has emerged from seclusion to debut her first memoir, Scream.
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Vintage Postcards for the Apocalypse
David Opdyke has taken scores of vintage postcards and altered each image in a way that completely changes its meaning.
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How Drawing Became Ida Applebroog’s Means to Communicate with the Outside World
Bouts of internal madness and discomfort have no one specific cure. But drawing did create an outlet and conversational platform for the otherwise silent Applebroog.
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London’s Most Eccentric Museum Restores the Catacombs Beneath It
The public can now visit the Catacombs of the Sir John Soane's Museum as he intended them to be experienced.