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Can Abstraction Help Us Understand the Value of Black Lives?
ST. LOUIS — Several months ago, I made the commitment to be away from New York City, my home and native land, for the duration of this summer.
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A Photographer Retraces His Grandfather’s 1,300-Mile Escape from a Soviet Prison Camp
In 1945, the final year of World War II, Anton Iwanowski and his brother Wiktor escaped from a Soviet gulag in a stolen rowboat.
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Vik Muniz Painstakingly Reconstructs the Backs of Famous Paintings
A gallery at the Mauritshuis museum in the Hague now appears in the midst of installation, with paintings propped against the walls, the backs of their frames exposed to visitors.
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Using a Retro View-Master to See Modernist Architecture in 3D
Since 1997, the Knoxville, Tennessee–based View Productions has created a series of reels highlighting 20th-century design and architecture, particularly forms that are difficult to capture in two dimensions.
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The Tender Playfulness of Paul Klee
PARIS — The key to Paul Klee’s wonderfully shaped energy is not ironic detachment, as the title of the Centre Pompidou’s current retrospective suggests, but rather the playful and idyllic emotion he transmits through masterly line and dusty color.
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An Artist Attempts to Draw the Entire History of Vietnam
HO CHI MINH CITY — At times the downtown here can appear as one great, big construction site — gleaming Chanel storefronts arise around the corner from propaganda posters.
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Stunning Chronophotographs Capture the Patterns of Birds in Flight
The dark, smudgy streaks on Xavi Bou's photographs suggest the jerky ink tracks created by a malfunctioning printer, but they actually record the various patterns birds trace while flying in flocks.
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The Sinuous Lines of Influence Between Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt
CLEVELAND — When I first saw the wall, I didn't see what was on it.
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The Underground Press and Its Extraordinary Moment in US History
What if the history of an era were stocked away in an attic, waiting for our attention?
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LOS ANGELES — This week, the filmmaker Guillermo del Toro shares his creative process at the Los Angeles County of Museum Art (LACMA), Visitor Welcome Center sets up a unique artistic exchange, four artists mine "the depths of Brown creativity/identity," and more.
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New Media Artists Mourn Tekserve, a Tech Oasis in New York
Many New Yorkers were sad to hear of Tekserve’s imminent closing, especially artists who work in new media, video, or otherwise incorporate the use of Apple products into their practices.
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From a Pineapple to a Six-Pack, 23 Buildings that Resemble the Things They Sell
A combination of roadside attraction novelty and greater architectural freedom resulted in some very strange 20th-century buildings.