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Poetry at the Root: Yoshimasu Gozo’s Art, Writing, and Music
TOKYO — It’s not often that a major art museum hosts an exhibition for a poet.
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Art, Work, and the Workaday
The lobby gallery at the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed midtown office tower at 1285 Avenue of the Americas, with its partitioned walls flanked by floor-to-ceiling windows on the north and south sides of the building, is unusually well-suited for both casual and concentrated encounters with art
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Paintings of Detroit Ruins that Ring True
DETROIT — Nancy Mitchnick's representations of places — whether they refer to actual locations or states of mind — ricochet out into the real world, conveying a sense of how a place looks based on how it feels.
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An Artist Couple from Bangladesh Shares Their Deeply Political Work
EAST LANSING, Mich. — It’s most intuitive to equate activism with a kind of direct action: collecting signatures, participating in a public protest, sending sharply worded letters, community organizing.
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Prismatic Pictures of Playgrounds
Within the chaos of a city, filled with walls that appear bleak and gray because they block the sun, we have set aside certain spaces, glittering under slants of canyon light, where the solitude of urban life breaks for communal play.
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Paintings that Play Out the Rhythms of Sex
Jonathan Lyndon Chase is all about the funk.
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Designing Less Dangerous Architecture for New York's Birds
The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on the west side of Manhattan was once among New York City's top three bird-killing buildings.
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Color-Changing Shirts Visualize Polluted Air
By now, we all know the grim health risks posed by air pollution, but as a reminder, they include lung damage, diabetes, skin problems, mental health problems, and heart disease.
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An LA Gallery Touches Down Awkwardly in Detroit
DETROIT — It is sometimes difficult to realize that a lot of what might be construed as who you are is actually a reflection of where you are.
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A Gateway into the Newark Art Scene
Gateway exists in a starkly commercial concourse that connects several corporations, including the New Jersey television network and Prudential Insurance — connecting all of them to Newark’s Penn Station.
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In the Shadow of the DNC, Art About Politics vs. Political Art
PHILADELPHIA — It should come as no surprise that there are many ways one can experience art.
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From Botticelli to Basquiat, Art History Goes Emoji
Some might find the translation of Vincent van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear” into a smiling cartoon head spurting blood a little sacrilege, or just tacky, but it was only a matter of time before the emoji-fication of art history took it there.