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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.
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The Second Coming of Betty Tompkins
LOS ANGELES — Sweetie. Pushy Broad. Sheela Na Gig. Queen. Sapphic Poon Hustler. These are just a few of the thousand or so terms used to describe women featured in Betty Tompkins’s sprawling painting installation, WOMEN Words, Phrases, and Stories on view at Gavlak Gallery in Hollywood — it is her f
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For Fluxus Artist Alison Knowles, Anything Can Be Art
PITTSBURGH — There are hardly any figures in the Alison Knowles exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art, but the presence of bodies, especially that of the artist, resonates throughout the prints, scroll books, and multimedia installations.
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A Billboard Gallery Brings Art to the Masses of Mexico City
MEXICO CITY — A piece of art that arrives plastered on a billboard might understandably be considered an attempt to strike a blow against the cultural status quo.
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Turning the Male Gaze on Its Head
It’s an oh-so-good premise for an exhibition: exploring the female gaze.
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Restoring Alexander Pope’s Glinting Grotto to Its Former Glory
Nothing remains of Alexander Pope's 18th-century villa except its grotto, which has experienced three centuries of quiet decay alongside the River Thames in Twickenham, England.
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Finding a Dwelling but Not Quite a Home in an Artwork
LOS ANGELES — "You don't know what work is." That's the last line of a poem by Philip Levine that immediately comes to mind when I wind my way through the Made in LA 2016 exhibition at the Hammer Museum and arrive at the final piece I encounter during my visit.
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The Monumental Totem Poles Built by a Retired Oklahoma Art Teacher
FOYIL, Okla. — In 1937, art teacher Ed Galloway began his retirement project: a 90-foot-tall totem pole rising from the back of a big blue turtle.
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Headless Trophies for Our Cultural Decadence
PORTLAND, Oregon — What can a herd of headless deer painted gold with gaudy tinsel tails teach the 1% and the rest of us? The answer is a lot.
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Terrible Taxidermy from When Exotic Animals Were Unknown in the West
Exotic animal visitors to Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries were more frequently dead than alive.
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The Abstract Patterns of Sound on Dusty Speaker Covers
There are no drawings on the walls for the Drawing Center's current exhibition — at least, none you may define in the conventional sense of the medium.