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An Overgrown Naval Cemetery Is Reborn as a Park
The curving boardwalk of the new park at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is respectfully raised above the earth where the remains of unknown sailors may still be interred.
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Longing for Keith Haring’s Lighthearted Penises
It may seem unusual to uphold a book of penis drawings as a significant art-historical moment, but Manhattan Penis Drawings for Ken Hicks creates an unignorable link between Haring’s early work and his homosexuality.
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Choosing Between a Folk Artist’s Story and His Work
Ronald Lockett believed in magic. So said sculptor Kevin Sampson during a talk in July at the American Folk Art Museum.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, the Hammer Museum launches 100 days of film and performance, The Box opens a career-spanning show of work by legendary feminist artist Barbara T. Smith, Mexico City-based artist Abraham Cruzvillegas brings cars and cacti to Regen Projects, and more.
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Totemic Tributes to the Obscured History of a Detroit Neighborhood
DETROIT — The history of the former municipality of Fairview is written in its streets.
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An Unlikely East-West Collaboration in 1830s Portraits of Tumor Patients
Guangzhou, then called Canton by Westerners, was the only Chinese port open to foreign trading until the Opium Wars of the 19th century, and it became a rare hub of direct interactions between the two cultures. One of these resulted in a surprisingly moving series of paintings portraying bodies disf
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Artists Crank Up the Transcendent Power of Music
What is a DJ? Maybe you can get to an answer by understanding where the DJ is — that pivot point, that hub around which we as dancers oscillate, in the orbit of the music the DJ arranges and organizes.
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At the Portland Biennial, Artists Make a Case for Living on the Outskirts
PORTLAND, Oregon — “Now, you’re dead inside,” the gallery assistant said.
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ArtRx NYC
This week is all about books, as Printed Matter's beloved art book fair touches down in Long Island City, while a new satellite fair pops up in nearby Greenpoint. Plus, don't miss the celebration of a pioneering performance series and the first retrospective for maintenance artist Mierle Laderman Uk
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Ugo Rondinone's Fragments of Nature Mourn the Environment
NÎMES, France — Ugo Rondinone’s zombie nature show Becoming Soil is an unintentional reminder that the terrifying Anthropocene age — when the human influence on Earth’s soil has been so profound it will leave its destructive legacy for millennia — is upon us.
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A Mural Honors the Ruins of an American Indian Boarding School
CONCHO, Okla. — Overgrown grass creeps up around the decayed remains of the Concho Indian Boarding School, its faded yellow walls pocked with gaping doorways and boarded windows.
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Building Public Trust Through Individual Promises
BOSTON — Paul Ramirez Jonas has challenged the idea of public space — and how it is demarcated from the private — throughout his 25-five year career of making highly formal participatory work.