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Conjuring a Piece of the Earth by Its Outline
Upon entering Odetta gallery in Bushwick, one is confronted with an irregular but geometric plywood sculpture that nearly fills the space, hovering within an inch of the floor.
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An Uncanny World of Manipulated Animals and Machines
DALLAS, Tex. — In 2007, Italian artist Paola Pivi brazenly preempted her audience’s response to a work by titling it, “If you like it, thank you. If you don’t like it, I am sorry. Enjoy anyway.”
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Original Winnie-the-Pooh Dolls, All Stuffed with Fluff, Go Back on View
Before Winnie-the-Pooh was a Disney superstar, before author A. A. Milne even considered the forest adventures of a beloved bumbling bear, he was a gift to a young boy on his first birthday.
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Keith Haring Envisions Manhattan as a Kingdom of Penises
Manhattan is full of dicks. Keith Haring, perhaps the most famous 1980s pop and graffiti artist to come out of New York’s downtown scene, knew this well.
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Three Artists Blur the Line Between Art and Play
DETROIT — It's an art world convention for conceptual art to be disruptive, or at least leave the viewer feeling unsettled, somewhat uncomfortable.
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Is It Possible to See What Is There?
The legendary curator Dorothy Miller first obtained a Richard Hunt sculpture for the Museum of Modern Art in 1957.
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Under No Obligation
We should all be inspired by Alma Thomas’s optimism.
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In Houston, an Outsider Art Trove Finds a Museum Home
HOUSTON, Texas — In this long, hot summer of violence, election-campaign anxiety, and widespread malaise, seekers of relief might find solace in music, movies or visits to museums — that is, in art in general, not so much for escapism, but for art’s reassuring messages about the endurance of the hum
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The Enabler
If measured as a flame to kindling, John D. Graham was arguably the most consequential figure in 20th-century American art.
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Hyperallergic IRL at Housing Works Hosts ‘Beer with a Painter' with Philip Pearlstein
The second Hyperallergic IRL event at Housing Works takes place on Tuesday, August 16! It will also be the first time Hyperallergic Weekend’s Beer with a Painter series will come to life as writer and art historian Jennifer Samet interviews painter Philip Pearlstein at the event.
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Grow a Grass Armchair in Your Garden
Land art doubles as lawn furniture with Terra, a “grass armchair” that grows from seeds and soil in a cardboard frame.
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Two Detroit Artists Face Up to Four Years in Prison for Political Graffiti
As a founding member of the Raiz Up Collective in Southwest Detroit, Antonio Cosme, 28, has been an outspoken critic of the city’s redevelopment regime: speaking at public meetings, interrupting the mayor’s state of the city address, and using his own body to prevent officials from shutting off a pr