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“Vulnerability Could Be the New Stoic”: Paintings by Allison Schulnik
In Allison Schulnik’s hands, paint becomes matter and subject becomes object. Her paintings are about a continual state of flux: morphing, dripping, and melting.
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The How Is the What: The Essential Harry Leigh
Since the early 1970s, Harry Leigh has been producing distinctive, elegant, deceptively simple wall-based sculptures, mainly of wood.
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Surrendering to the Women of Vienna
The uncannily contemporary aspect of Gustav Klimt’s painting is that it was always in flux.
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A Village in Panama Built Out of Plastic Bottles
In 2012, Canadian entrepreneur Robert Bezeau began a recycling program in his now-home of Bocas del Toro, Panama, after realizing that locals were mostly filling their garbage bags to the brim with plastic.
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Astrological Aesthetics: October 2016 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
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Colorful Canvases that Transform Worn-Out Clichés
LOS ANGELES — Glenn Goldberg seizes worn-out clichés that would seem unable to support weight and uses them to unexpectedly launch himself into painting.
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John Malkovich Plays Your Favorite David Lynch Characters
For his latest project, "Playing Lynch," actor John Malkovich dressed up as all your favorite David Lynch characters, including Special Agent Dale Cooper and the Log Lady from cult '90s TV show Twin Peaks.
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Wrapping Flowers in Paper that Points Out Their Human Cost
Artist and activist Federico Hewson has spent a decade advocating for better conditions on flower farms, and now he’s created a gentle tool to raise awareness of the often harsh labor conditions and environmental impacts behind the inexpensive blooms we so enjoy: the paper they’re wrapped in.
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At Tate Modern, an Attempt to Free Georgia O’Keeffe’s Art from an Erotic Interpretation
LONDON — The opening of Tate Modern on London’s South Bank in 2000 changed the landscape of contemporary art in Britain.
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Jean Tinguely's Clanging, Banging Machine Sculptures
PARIS — The crepuscular imbroglio at work in Jean Tinguely’s historic machine sculptures, currently on view at Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois, is very much of the present moment.
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Where Do Banks Go When They Die?
Did you know that since the start of the last recession that over 527 banks have failed? How would we know?
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Reissuing the Voyager Golden Record, NASA's Quixotic Message to the Stars
Louis Armstrong performing "Melancholy Blues," Mozart's Queen of the Night aria, and panpipes from Peru are etched among the cacophony of Earth sounds on the gold-plated records attached to Voyager 1 and 2.