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This week, a film screening fights back against the violence of ethnography, an exhibition shows off the artists who run South Florida's alternative art spaces, the Morgan reunites a Hans Memling triptych, and more.
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The Fantastical Visions of a Forgotten Early-20th-Century Illustrator
Sidney Herbert Sime's art seems to capture the point at which a dream becomes a nightmare.
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Exploring the Art Galaxy in the WikiVerse, a 3-D Visualization of Wikipedia
After the singularity, how will we explain the internet pastime of going down a Wikihole to our cyborg children?
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A Year of Lynda Benglis Shows in a Norwegian City
The Norwegian city of Bergen, home to about 265,000 people, is getting a full dose of Lynda Benglis this year.
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Vintage Subway Etiquette Posters Reveal Manspreading Has Always Been Annoying
When the New York Transit authority rolled out a courtesy campaign targeting manspreading last year, Men's Rights Activists and angry netizens accused “anti-spread” crusaders of being whiny “pseudo-feminists.”
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An Exhibition Recaps 50 Years of James Bond, the Spy Who Loved Himself
PARIS — James Bond, 007 the Exhibition provides just enough ludicrous, louche swagger to fill hard-living, hard-killing art stars with envy.
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The Hidden History of Recycling in Medieval Art
It's easy to forget that a historic artifact preserved in a museum is not a static object.
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Considering What Art Can (and Can’t) Do in a Survey of Northwest Artists
TACOMA, Wash. — Your eye is desperate for a focal point when you look at Rodrigo Valenzuela’s “Goal Keeper #1” (2014).
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Is It a Trojan Horse?
In 1989, after a protracted litigation, a jury of five voted four to one in favor of removing Richard Serra’s “Tilted Arc” (1981) from Federal Plaza in Manhattan, where it had stood for nearly a decade.
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Seymour Krim to William Saroyan: A Letter
You're surrounded by jerks, ass-kissers, sycophants.
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How Do You Say Goodbye to a Painting?
Titian’s “The Flaying of Marsyas” is among the most celebrated and disturbing images the Venetian master ever painted.
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Decoding Public Art in City Hall Park
Between the four speakers of Chris Watson's "Ring Angels," the fluttering of a thousand wings fills a corner of City Hall Park.