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Rachel Whiteread's Concrete Cabin Awaits Discovery in the Governors Island Hills

British artist Rachel Whiteread and curator Tom Eccles discussed both the Unabomber and Henry David Thoreau's Walden in considering the form and isolation of the American cabin.

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Better Days

In 1987, Joe Becker, Lee Collins, and Mark began investigating the possibilities of generating a Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) that would, among other things, enable a computer to encode, transmit, and translate one language into another.

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Fault Line

The first paragraph of Lev Manovich’s groundbreaking essay, “Database as Symbolic Form” (1999) came to mind about three minutes after I began pouring over the weird, wacky, wild and wooly stuff displayed under glass in Tony Oursler: The Imponderable Archive at the Hessel Museum of Art.

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Street Art Is a Period. Period. Or the Emergence of Intermural Art

Let’s start off with a clear contention. Street Art, as I see it, is a period.

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In Switzerland, Art Brut Goes Back to Its Roots

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The roots of art brut, as a field of research, may go back a century or more, effectively (if perhaps unwittingly) tracing the evolution of this unusual art genre in parallel with but separate from that of modern art.

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Contemplating Perfection and Imperfection at Dia:Beacon

A visit last weekend to Dia:Beacon, the vast repository of Minimalist art on the east bank of the Hudson River, brought home once more the complexities and contradictions of a movement whose goal was to be as plain as the nose on your face.

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Sin Like It’s the 16th Century in a Game that Remixes Renaissance Art

Forgive me, for I have sinned. I peeped at a lady's ankle through an open window and carved an idol in my own image.

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Aerial Views of Where America’s Grid Bends to the Curvature of the Earth

As any traveler who's gazed out the window of an airplane while flying over the United States knows, the grid reigns.

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In Ireland, a Biennial Examines the Vestiges of Empire

LIMERICK, Ireland — Still (the) Barbarians is the bold title for this year’s EVA International Biennial in Limerick.

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An Art Historical Perspective on the Baton Rouge Protest Photo that Went Viral

This past Saturday, protesters gathered in Baton Rouge to protest the death of Alton Sterling, an African American man shot to death while being arrested by white police officers.

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Two Colossal Hellenistic Statues Will Stay at the Met for Two More Years

A couple of ancient giants are extending their American debut by two years.

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Trying (and Failing) to Make Painting Great Again

Here’s the thing about the Make Painting Great Again exhibition at Canada Gallery: I honestly dislike it.