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This Is Your Chance to Become a Rabid Rabologist
Much more than a practical device, the walking stick was a popular fashion accessory particularly during the 17th through 19th centuries, when they approached the quality of fine art.
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This Year's Turner Prize Exhibition Makes Good on Its Potential to Shock
It’s the same thing every year. The press has a field day with some sensational piece that challenges the very definition of art and the Turner Prize is front page news for the day.
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ArtRx LA
This week, a horror-themed art show-cum-escape room opens at Think Tank, Montreal-based artist Sabrina Ratté makes her LA debut at Young Projects, Walter Thompson-Hernandez speaks about his "Blaxicans of LA" photo series, and more.
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Artist Carrie Mae Weems Makes a Pro-Hillary Clinton Video
Inspired by Obama's address to the Congressional Black Caucus, artist Carrie Mae Weems has created a video plea to vote for Hillary Clinton this November.
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Photographs of a Cree Community Before a Manmade Flood Washed It Away
A new online archive revisits George Legrady's 1973 photography project about the Cree communities of James Bay, Quebec.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, whet your appetite with sculptures inspired by some of the world's most famous Asian American chefs, check out 47 tinkering musicians' modular synthesizers, and peer into a giant sculptural fishbowl.
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The Belgian Town Where the Mentally Ill Are Part of the Community
The treatment of mental illness has often involved removing patients from society and placing them in their own institutions.
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The Enduring Power of Southeast Asia's Traditional Shadow Puppets
For centuries, shadow puppet theater not only captivated audiences across Southeast Asia but also held ritual significance for various local communities.
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Stilling the Wind and Rain as Suspended Metal
Paula Crown interprets the memory of rainfall in a cascade of suspended metal at Marlborough Gallery.
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Art for an Uncertain World at the São Paulo Biennial
SÃO PAULO — Critics in major Brazilian newspapers have been calling the 32nd São Paulo Biennial too “politically correct,” all ideas and no art.
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Archaic Futurism
In an interview that appeared in The Brooklyn Rail (May 2014), Joyce Robins explained that the title of her early painting “The Vly” (1975) is the Dutch word for swamp.
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Vanity, Thy Name Is Man
CHICAGO — I was hooked by the time I finished reading “Mr. John F. Kennedy and Mr. Kenneth Noland” (2016), a text-filled drawing written in pencil in large and distinct capital letters that reminded me of penmanship practice in elementary school.