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Etel Adnan’s Vibrant, Visual Poems
LONDON — “Colorists are epic poets,” said Charles Baudelaire, and here at the Serpentine Gallery we have both: a painter of abstract landscapes and a poet, not to mention activist, scribe, and filmmaker.
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The Divine Messages of a Victorian Spiritualist’s Drawings
LONDON — Frenetic spirals of color and swirling sinuous lines characterize the disembodied ink and watercolor works by Georgiana Houghton, currently on show at the Courtauld Gallery.
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Time Travel Along Fifth Avenue, with Photos from the Early 1900s and Today
In 1911, photographer Burton Welles published Fifth Avenue, New York, from Start to Finish.
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The Prescient Work of an Artist Killed on 9/11
The Michael Richards exhibition on Governors Island, curated by Alex Fialho and Melissa Levin, proves what an astonishing loss it was when the artist was killed on 9/11.
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LED Street Art Lights Up a Dark, Dodgy Alley in Philadelphia
Percy Street in South Philadelphia is an abnormality in the city's orderly grid, curving between South 9th Street and Reed Street, its seclusion making it a haven for littering and more illicit activities.
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Hieronymus Bosch’s Worlds that Could Have Been
MADRID — Commemorating the fifth centenary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch, Madrid's El Museo del Prado has arranged an exhibition that, according to its catalogue, displays "the greatest number of Bosch’s works ever to be assembled."
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, two shows focus on the legendary print house Gemini G.E.L., Mira Schor unveils the second half of her epic "War Frieze," an international design survey comes to Laguna Beach, and more.
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An Artist Reanimates the Sounds and Signs of the Persian Gulf War
SAN FRANCISCO — Memory has always fascinated Hayv Kahraman, and she looks for ways to explore it in her art.
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Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia’s Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a school wall in cheap, bright acrylics.
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NY Public Library Exhibits Its Recent Social Justice Zine Acquisitions
Since the late 19th century, the New York Public Library (NYPL) has collected alternative publications, the institution's acquisitions mirroring publishing movements over the following decades.
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ArtRx NYC: Fall Guide 2016
The autumnal art season is upon us, and we're bringing you Hyperallergic’s New York Art Guide for fall 2016.
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The Brutality of Little Bighorn, as Seen by Someone Who Was There
TULSA, Okla. — Decades after the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, Stephen Standing Bear, who participated in the tumultuous engagement, recalled its chaos: "I could see Indians charging all around me. Then I could see the soldiers and Indians all mixed up and there were so many guns going off that