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This week, BAM kicks off a retrospective of Robert Frank's films, octogenarian artist Lorraine O'Grady talks openly about aging at the New Museum, a new space-inspired cantata — which comes with virtual reality — touches down in Prospect Park, and more.
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The road that led to last week’s Brooklyn Community Forum on Anti-Gentrification and Displacement at the Brooklyn Museum was long and winding, but its starting point is very clear.
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BLACKPOOL, UK — While obsessed with Felix the Cat, Mark Leckey has his own highly sensitive pair of whiskers.
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Maggots spill from the bare ribcage of the toothy skeleton, and the poor soul in hell, his skin blood-red, is tearing apart his own torso. These are two of the four fates of the soul, as so horrifically and magnificently crafted by whom experts believe is the 18th-century Ecuadorian sculptor, Manuel
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Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
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The United States was invaded by hundreds of giants in the 1960s and 70s. Over half a century later, those that remain are weathered and decayed, their kitsch out of fashion.
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LOS ANGELES — The Annenberg Space for Photography serendipitously opened their latest exhibition Refugee during the Jewish holiday of Passover, which celebrates one of our most enduring refugee narratives, the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt (even if its veracity is in doubt).
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INDIANAPOLIS — In the mid-1970s, when my new, Hoosier husband first took me to visit Indianapolis, the city seemed haunted by the ghosts of middlebrow culture.
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Oversized frog heads; a thin, silk faille gown swathed in a cotton candy-colored parka; a cacophony of plaids, polka dots, chevrons, furs, sequins, feathers, tribal prints, and religious iconography. This is the world of Isaac Mizrahi, on view at the Jewish Museum.
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In her memoir, The Girl Who Fell to Earth (2012), Sophia Al-Maria, who was raised as a bicultural Muslim, says she feels like a “deep-sea diver, adjusting constantly to the pressures of […] two very different environments.”
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If you should not judge a book by its cover? What about the living room you grew up in? What do its contents say about you? Does its décor reflect who you are?
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Speaking very generally and just of figurative art: sculpture creates a world around itself, and painting creates a world inside itself.